Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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mr- ! Crowded classrooms forced students to worm their way into lecture periods. Window tapping aided in conveying nnes- sages fronn one student to another. Advisees obtain information from Leonard Hubbard as part of the regular counsel- ling program. Students soon fell into the routine of hurry- ing to clases after the tardy bell had rung.

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Following registration students bought necessary textbooks. Yvonne Gamier and Virginia Lyons were two of the many to get their books from Vivian Wysynski at the Viking Co-op. Part of any Collegian ' s life is spent in waiting at the bus stop.

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Piles of papers to be graded greeted English department Head Mrs. Elinor Hiatt after classes were over. Time spent here is in addition to time spent in lectures. Contrary to belief, Instructors do not enjoy finding mistakes. While other instructors schooled their charges in formal English, Dr. George C. Booth and hiarry Frish- man taught them the terse con- cise style of newswriters. Some went into professional journalism; many did not. One phase of English courses cor- dially disliked both by students and instructors was term papers. This student Is striving over a 1 500 word research paper, which will be graded and kept by the depart- ment, hie will be able to see the mistakes, but will not retain the paper. Tess of the D ' UrbervIlles occu- pied the time of English IB stu- dents. They read it, reread it, ana- ized it, became angry at Tess. Invaluable assistance to English students is the dictionary, hiere students found spellings, pronoun- clatlons, definitions, synonyms, antonyms. With five copies In the department and the library, they still mispronounced and misused words. 16