Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Some live at Southern Acres and have classes on the main earnpus: others live in town and have Classes at Southern fleres. Both spend time on busses traveling hack and forth.. What hetter time to study? To a college student, time is a tyrant. It is the all compelling, ever limiting ingredient of life itself. They come as freshmen, caught up in the whirling pace from the first expect- ant moment on campus. New Student Week, designed to help entering students adjust to the University plan of life, starts it off. Tests, dances, meetings and tours-a.m., p.m., I.B.M.-the Week itself is a test of endurance. Classes start. Surely the pace slackensl Go to class, Watch the time, study, Watch the time, dance, head for the 'hoxl keep your eye on the time--coed hours, home to cram. The eight hour day? Unheard of on a University campus! iv' -l mums, ............,. Coffee break? We have those M 'ftr -' too. But they flon't exactly mean the same thing they mean to an office worker. fi Ht The first taste of the reginzentation of time is the day' new students herd theniselres into groups for orientation :hiring New Student lfveeh. the better to stay on the time tahle. 34, 2 ., 'Q .' v ' X- A 'ff' ' ,f nf 1 I , , K, Rx 17 8 v

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SYSTEMI BA ED BIGNESS ' Xltw ' li ,1 , 4 'T . I ill .ff . f 4 f ,uh 'S ' - xi ' 4' '. -A '.- .. - ' - - ' ' f. .4 ' W ' J, , q y 43, A .t .Q .surf sr V gl , . ...Q sy uifln., . . - ' W. X - - - Q rr W V, 4 -av' H . s, ' '- '1...t..4-'- '4--- 1n.Q.,,,. ' Q I , -4, 6 - . .. ' ...............-Q., g -----f ,. A K - Ag' fpu N: V g I 'yiwai w 'Q r' X -f W W. .' as 5 . i . , M... - N The gleaming, super-efficient new library opened for business this year-il. too, is going lo grow still more. There were 54 students in the first session of Southern Illinois Normal University in 18744. The faculty numbered nine. Southern's come a long way since then. By the '30s it had grown to around l,500. Some said it had reached its peak. Building ceased-after all, the campus had been formed. Came the calamitous '40s and war drop- ped enrollment to less than a thousand. Came war's end and Southern began to feel its sides. An influx of veterans swelled enrollment to more than 3,000 in 1949. And it was during this per- iod that Southern dropped Normal from its name and became a University in fact. Space to grow in! Army barracks, a tavern, frame houses by the dozen, a chicken hatchery. All were pressed into service. Frantic building began. University School, Woody Hall, Life-Science. a 1HS2,500.000 library, an agriculture building longer than a foot- ball fieldl The new dormitory complex on Thompson point is larger than the completed campus, of the 30s. More than 6.000 students in l956l lt's getting big. lt's going to get mighty big. 19