Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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When you came back to a school build- ing that had undergone a metamorphosis. Now you could sit through a class in the place where there used to be all those cool machines for making booties. And the Bookstore was moved to a new loca- tion — this is an improvement? When you could go to class in the nuclear center. But what color did they eventually decide on for the reactor shell? When you witnessed or participated in Tech ' s largest exhibition to date of mass thought on October 15. When you visited the mouths of in- dustry and bragged your way to a secondary and probably a job. And your friends did not recognize you underneath that tie and shirt. When the new library was more com- plete than the nuclear center and sched- uled to open in Februray. 13