Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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Oscilloscopes. P-Chem lab till all hours. Grab a locker early. You stand in line lo r a lot of things these days, don ' t you? Seminars for Russian His- tory and German in Joe ' s cafeteria. Student Wives ' cookie sales in front of the mailroom. Sort of makes up your mind as to whether you want to be married or not, huh? A sneak blizzard; 8 inches out of an early November nowhere. Off to the ski slopes. Ask your favorite meteorology ma- jor for a forecast, but don ' t ask him about instru- ments. What instruments? Don ' t you wish your professors handed out the grades the way the Math professors do? Don ' t you wish they taught the way Math professors do? According to Einstein, each face of the library clock tower is moving at .992c with respect to the others. For that matter, the clocks throughout the school are rather relativistic, aren ' t they? The mod touch on campus. Hippies. STUDENTS PROTEST MANDATORY ROTC! Step right this way — the largest collection of individual thinkers ever to grace the steps of Cumnock Hall; and they are not carrying toothbrushes but signs! Since when do we dare? Since last June. Look at your picture in this yearbook. How many of you look the same now? Isn ' t it great how everybody decides to be an individual at once? Softee ' s here! The new library addition be- gins. With a name like Bourgeois, you expected caviar? or food even? It ' s back to the 94 for me. I ' d like to leave the city of Lowell out of this, but you must admit when they rolled the side- walks up one night in 1947 it was for good. When they shut off our bridge just irv time for ROTC drill, and we hollered, That ' s a no-no , they made up for it by closing the next bridge upstream. We wanted cars. We got cars. Oh, for a park bench, a place to sit that isn ' t stone. You tried ' 68, but will it ever look like a campus, an Amherst campus? Will it ever feel or act like a campus, a Boston campus? Does it have to? Does anyone up there care?

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ENLISTED As a member of the class of 1969 you are duly requested to fill out the following forms for the Placement office, shave off your sideburns, pluck your mustache, lower your hems and cuffs, shine your feet, and smile at the nice man who wants to give you $10,000. So you fill, shave, pluck, lower, smile, brag, go on a secondary, and carry a rifle for two years. Did you see Laugh-In or the Smothers Brothers this week? A mod poster advertising the Alpine Club ski week. Pershing Rifles meets — a fi rst prize nearly every time. 4-hour ME labs. Has anyone seen a math major? The river roars on outside Pasteur ' s halls. The library grows up overnight. We can send men around the moon, but every- thing stops for the Hong Kong fru. The intes- tines of the school get a remodeling, and I am referring to whatever you are thinking. Yes, it has been college; maybe not what you wanted, but what you could afford. Like the Four Seasons, Dave Brubeck, Guella Gill, Jackie Wash- ington, Gary Puckett, etc. . . . Like sunning your- self on the Southwick Hall grass, or grassing your- self in the local rising suns, cramming for finals and NO-DOZ parties till all hours. We have changed more, each of us, in the past four years, than in any other period of our lives. Not drastically, as in high school, but subtly, in- side. Some of us are men and women, but not all. Oh, sure, we can drink, have sex, vote, file law- suits, get married without our parents ' permis- sion, etc. Big deal. Hell, in ten years, they ' ll be writing that in high school yearbooks. To be men and women is something far different. And the debate will go on for many years as to whether it is a college ' s place to create this in us, or if this is not within their domain. The debate will go on as to whether Lowell Tech. tried to do this for us or not. During the past four years, you have met some of the most brilliant people in your field. The knowledge that has been available at Tech. is seldom surpassed in concentration in this world. Lowell Tech. will turn out. then, a significant number of important people to this world. 13