Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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MAGKLIM STADIUM An enlarged stadium was new in ' 49, a striking indication of Michigan State ' s new position as a member of the Big Ten. Seating 51,000, Macklin Stadium greeted the University of Michigan ' s Rose Bowl champs at full capacity. Traditional hot dog venders, enthusiastic crowds, and bouncing cheerleaders remained the same but Michigan State was Big Ten, actually and physically.

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I EW was the Watchword of Our Bacty Beat, the row of late Victorian buildings that formed MSC ' s original campus, still stood in the quiet con- fidence of age in 1 949. These Gothic grand-daddies thought their upstart offspring would have to prove themselves. College life and landscape was a matter of change and im- provisation. Since 18 5 5, they had seen contemporaries come and go, known changes in their own personalities, and un- dergone repairs with patience in the knowledge they weren ' t as young as they used to be. Now, secure as revered landmarks, they were proud of clean-limbed Berkey Hall along Grand River and Electrical Engineering, an intelligen t youngster who set up shop be- side Old Man Cedar. A new power plant on south campus was supplying Michigan State with a well-planned, bal- anced diet of volts and amps. They would make a name in the college world. They came from a good home. They were brought up right. je

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PHYSICS BUILDING Michigan State ' s new physics building is a triumph of simpHcity in architecture, and without much question one of the most beautiful in the country. An added touch of ele- gance is the adroit, clean-cut sculptures of Carl Schmitz. The interior was planned to be as flexible as possible, and the laboratory system incorporates the newest features in equipment. 19