City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

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WINGATE Lavender, my Lavender... Sturdy sons of City College . . . Whether you call it Wingate, or Hygiene, or just “The Gym,” freshmen will still be getting lost in the locker rooms. The treks to Lcwisohn in our shorts will continue, and you’ll push-up or pay the consequences. Yes, and is there a man at the college who hasn’t had his shower dis- rupted by some pretty miss looking for her tour? They’ll fill the floor for the Stein Fund game, and scat-seekers will always slide down the banked track. The Wingate Gymnasium

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These hallowed halls of ivy. HARRIS Townsend Harris, once a high school for geniuses, remains the only building at the college which has a built-in psychoanalysis. Everybody, it seems, has been used as a guinea pig by a “friend” who also happens to be a Psych Major on the prowl for a subject for 52. They’ve moved the English department cubbyholes out of here, now, but we remember the long wait on the hard and splintery bench outside. Even the trek of seniors to the placement office has been transferred, for that matter. This building not only has four entrances, they’re all on different levels, too. There’s a vivid memory of the only drinking fountains that ever ran cold. And who knows, maybe someday they’ll even extend the elevator all the way up to the top floor.

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GOETHALS Engineers will recall vividly one thing about the Tech Building (Gocthals Hall). The pitter-patter of little (“LITTLE?”) feet in the Tech Gym above a drafting class makes a lasting impression. Everyone who took C.E. Ill, and that means all engineers, will long treasure the old pair of pants covered with the dust of the cement they had to mix. And Tech Crossroads, hub of the engineers' world, will continue to bafllc anyone in the Liberal Arts schools. Home of out fututt