Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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The Student Handbook Every year it's the same. Freshmen come to Marquette from hundreds of situations having to make the transition to college life. The 1953 Student Handbook listed eight rules for making the transition to college easier. 1. You are in college now. so forget about your past glories in high school. Don't strut around campus wearing emblems or sweaters from high school achievement, but start all over to win college recognition. 2. Study hard the first year and you will discover your other three years will be much easier because you have gotten accustomed to making good grades. 3. Budget both your time and your money. 4. Money is nice to have, but it isn't necessary for success. Many campus leaders are partially self-supporting. 5. Learn to use university libraries. 6. Observe ordinary courtesy. Brush up on etiquette — it will save you needless embar-assment. 7. Get into student activities, for you cannot obtain a complete education from courses alone. l ake advantage of the numerous cultural and social advantages. 8. Learn the schtxd songs and turn out for athletic games. The teams deserve your support. Opposite Page Above Passing through a slidcrulc arch at the Engineers Ball. 1946. Opposite Page Bottom: The I'nion, a male stronghold on campus. about 1947. Left: Batracks which had been built to house military personnel during World War II were switched to classrooms during peacetime, as the campus was inundated with veterans who took advantage of the G.l Bill.

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' Part Four: Intermission (1946-19M) Finally, after 13 years of hardship, the country took a breather. Along with the rest of the country. Marquette entered a new era. The Forties brought rampant inflation and consumerism. The Fifties brought the Red Scare, the McCarthy hearings, the emergence of television and rock n' roll, and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. In the early Sixties, the baby-boom generation came of age. All of these social phenomena profoundh affected Marquette as it was forced to bring its ancient Catholic tradition into a rapidly-changing. anti-traditional society. 1946 — Enrollment reaches an all-time high at 4.732 as the campus is flooded with veterans making use of the G.l. Hill to fund their educations. To ease the overcrowded conditions created by the sudden influx of students, pre-fabricated barracks are installed behind the Science lluildmg (currently called Marquette Hall) and the Medical College. A library, a larger union and more classroom space are desperately needed. 1917 — Enrollment jumps to over 7.(XX). Plans to permanently ease the overcrowding 24

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are made. 1948 —Joseph McCarthy, a 1935 graduate of the Marquette Law School, is a member of the U.S. Senate, where he gains infamy. 1950 — The plans of 1947 to ease overcrowding begin to bear fruit as the College of Business Administration building is completed. — The Association of Marquette University Women, an alumnae group, finances a new women's dormitory on 18th Street. It is named after the then current president of the university, Rev. Edward J. O'Donnell. S.J. 1952 — The Program in Physical Therapy is approved. 1953 — A new university library is completed, replacing the old library on the second floor of Johnston Hall. — A new student union is completed. Unlike the old union, which was maintained by income and the sale of shares, the new union is a university project, supported by the alumni. 1954 — The Medical Library is built, and Wasting Time In The Fifties Alumnus Charles Librizzi told the Hilltop he remembers spending too much time playing bridge in the union. Bridge, he said, was the big activity on campus when he was at school in the mid - 1950s. Librizzi said that when he and his friends needed a fourth player, they would ask one of the kids hanging around the jukebox to play. One of the kids who was always hanging around and available to play, Librizzi recalls, was Tom Snyder. Snyder, of course, is currently the distinctive host of NBC's Tomorrow show. Snyder signed Librizzi s yearbook with a suggestion that Librizzi brush up on his bridge game over the summer.