Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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The next twenty years were the years of speakeasies, depression, and the rise of the fascist powers. But the news wasn't that bad at Marquette. Some students were affected by the depression, most of those being students who had to work to put themselves through school. As one graduate said, uWe just didn't have much money to spend. A good example is that I had to walk miles from a prom because we just ceuldn't afford trans- portation. Another alumnus said that even though the tuition was only $100 per semester, some students had difficulty staying in school. That $100 was very tough to come by, he commented. Despite the difficul- ties, and the influence of the Jesuits at Marquette, many students became more daring in their activ- ities than their predeces- sors. A journalism graduate can recall a few pranks of the students. uThere were so many times when we had to hide the girls behind a statue of Fr. Marquette in front of Johnston Hall in order to get them into the building, because they weren't allowed in after 9 o'clock. But the thing that I remember most vividly is when we used to go to the SDX annual picnic. It seemed that every year we would always get a differ- ent cabin because the damage we had done to the one we had before.

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In the early years of the twentieth century, there wasn't any Mar- quette as we know it on Wisconsin Avenue, until 1913. Before that there was only a Marquette Academy located on State and 13th. As one alumnus commented When viewing the university as it stands today for the first time, This place can't be com- pared to the way it used to be. The university has real- ly grown up. 27

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After the war in the 1940's a tremendous in- flux of veterans infiltrated Marquette when the GI Bill took effect. nWe were just more mature than the other kids. I remember when the vet- erans would have to repri- mand the other kids when they would get on the teachers' nerves, one graduate said. And the campus itself was still far from the way it is today. There was no u- nion building, but the up- stairs portion of Carpenter Hall was used as the union. Earlier in the era, though, there was no union at all, and a building called Drexel Lodge was used as a type of gathering place . . . for women only. Talk about discrimination! 29