Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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RAKE at mid-century is a changing Drake. A Drake that is changing in its mental attitude as well as in its physical appearance. Here, as the coun- try over, the veterans brought expanded campuses. They brought enlarged curric- ula and ideas that college professors did not know students possessed. Now in 1950, a huge majority of them have said or are saying good-bye to their alma mater. They are leaving behind their Fort Des Moines apartments and trailer camps to make way for a new type of student-the high school graduate. Actually, they are leaving so things may return to what must be called the norm in university life. And todayis freshman is not a new type of student but the old type. Things are settling down to routine and instructors are relaxing a little. And, for good or for bad, the GI students are dis- appearing. Not, however, without leaving their mark-one that rates high both aca- demically and in outside activities. They leave a real challenge to those who follow. It is these veterans to whom we feel espe- cially indebted. We hope we have cap- tured in this book some of the things that are college life as they experienced it, If we did, it is with pleasure that we dedicate this issue of the QLIAX to the departing veterans and to an educationally prosper- ous Drake during the second half of the Qofh century. Page 6 '-s. 4s,,,txq THIS IS A VIEW OF THE HARVEY INGHAM SCIENCE HALL SHOWING THE

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' x SOUTHWEST ENTRANCE TO THE AUDITORIUM AT LEFT AND THE ALL-GLASS SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING. IT WAS COMPLETED IN I949. Page 7