NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

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iff ,T ilwl, BeTween classes one could observe groups oT sober-eyed co-eds leaving The elevaTor on The TourTh Tloor scurrying To Their lockers, Then inTo lounges, Pompous 409 equipped wiTh sTiTT-backed chairs and unrelaxable couches, and sTricTly Tor Temales, was where The serious sTudenT sTudied-and dare noT smolce. BuT a Tew doors OTT, in a IiT+Ie room wi+h a circular bench in iTs cenTer, and a Toggish haze abouT iT, The verbo+en sign was oTT. When The rnale sTudenT soughT privacy and seclu- sion Trom The oTher sex, he Turned To The men's smoking room on The sevenTh Tloor Brown-a large, airy, lounging hall Tilled wiTh leaThery TurniTure and a pleasanT TranguilliTy. T-lere he could smoke, sTudy, and Tallc abouT his TavoriTe suloiecT wiTh a sympa- TheTic pal. STill, There was The AxworThy Browsing room, named Tor The laTe and much-respecTed ProTessor l-larold AxworThy, on The second Tloor OT lvlain. T-lere looTh sexes were permiTTed To lounge, scan Through The collecTion oT currenT periodicals and l3csT sellers, To smolce-and mighT occasionally smug- gle in a whisper.

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Lounge in the Limelight Okay, We'll Pose Sancluary lor cullers, delerrenl ol work, rendez- vous lor all, called lhe Pink Room lor ils walls, Room IOI lor ils locarion, lhe Giraffe Room lor obvious reasons, bul generally iusl lhe Lounge. Characlerized by a solid sheel ol smoke and noise, lhe piano blending in noi loo smoolhly, a molley aggregalion ol khaki, plaid, sloppy swealers and occasionally lhe navy blue ol a visiling alumnus. ll was here lhal The A.S.T.P. mixed wilh co-eds, and plans lor lhe relurn ol Sl. Johns' lndian were made. ln lhe back, The more serious sludenls langled wirh a chess board. Occasionally an oplirnislic grind opened a book, bul despile good inlenlions he was soon challing wilh lhe brunelle on his lell. The same people came lhal had lrequenled Com- mons. They lounged in comlorl now, llicking ashes surrepliciously, using lhe modernisiic sand boxes when someone was looking, as lhe hoslesses, lvlrs. Young and Mrs. Le Clerk can leslily. There were people who dropped in lo guzzle al lhe deluxe waler lounlain, lo chal belween classes, lo pick up lriencls .... or maybe a slranger. Socializing And in This Corner . . .

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Twelve Dollars Pre-Meds Zeslfully Dissecl' a Cai DespiTe bobby-soclcs, hoT Tudge sundaes and Tra- TerniTies, knowledge is sTill a college's main raison d'eTre. We haTe To admiT we worlced when exams came. We boasT oT The many Times we cuT. BuT we did go To lecTures, laboraTories, and libraries. For, aTTer all, who would pay Twelve dollars a poinT and volunTarily reTuse To geT someThing in reTurn? Thick-lensed microscopes paraded in solemn black rows. Smug grey sTone-Topped chemisTry Tables squaTTed wiThin a Wagnerian haze OT sTruggling sun- lighT. ln such halls OT doubTTul beauTy, The serious- mincled A-sTudenT sTucl4 To his scienTiTic Taslc. There was big 55l and small 602 Tilled wiTh gas generaTors and mouse cages, see-ped wiTh disTincTiye odors-Tor Toul eggs and Tormalin were omnipresenT in The Brown building. Three or Tour years, and crowds oT eager liTTle people were TransTormed inTo sober, eTTicienT pracTiTioners OT Their respecTive sciences. Then There were The classrooms, some brooding in eTernal darlcnessg some baslcing in rousing daylighT. There, haughTy scienTisTs deigned To mingle wiTh Tierce economisTs, and Tormal philosophers meT searching psychologisTs. Walls coyered wiTh inTerm- inable blackboards reTlecTed boTh The droning voices oT proicessors and The unsTiTled yawns oT sTudenTs. New color schemes oT shrielcing greens or melan- Headriclr Heciles His All-Girl Class T T Shades of Madame Curie