North Central College - Spectrum Yearbook (Naperville, IL)

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if NOIZTHVVESTERN SPECTRUM A Group of Students. fall term, from 65-9 during the Winter term, and from UQ-95 in the spring term. More than three unexcused absences from recitations shall subject the offender to unconditional dismission. Students shall refrain from all social visiting, loud talking, or making any other noise which might interrupt the repose or study of others. Scenes in the Reading Room and Y. M. Room flitted through my mind. No special meetings shall be held during study hours.-No special meet- ings during study hours! I sighed and tenderly closed over the paper grateful that time brings about changes. l The old man had evidently forgotten his subject and I had heard only half enough. Then how long were you here? I inquired. Well, I was here until '83. Prof. H. H. Rassweiler was electel Presi- dent and the College did excellent Work. The dormitories didn 't last very long for the rooms were needed for Literary So- ciety Halls, which at that time had almost the run of the whole school. There were five Literary Societies besides such so- cieties as the Canadian, Public Speaking, and others. At iirst the societies were run separately for the boys and girls. We had our debates and regular exercises and very few evenings did We ever have any socials. We Went into Society for the real good we got out of it. Pres. H. H. Rassweiler. 14

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Noiarnvvesrelm SPECTRUM-Sxaf-Hag-agasgfig 'tln September of 1871 there were ' f 120 students enrolled. The school be- . gan on the 5th of October. The build- ing was not completed, so the register- ing of students was done down in the old brick church. There was room for I some seventy students on the upper I floors of the main wing. The fifth floor was called Tower Hall, and the boys rooming there were always known as the 'Tower Hall boys.' The rest of the students rooined around in the homes of residents. We had something then that the college should have now, and that was . . . - a college parlor. It was down in the The Bul'd1 g 1 ISIO' room occupied now by the present main office. We could always entertain our visitors there. We had our receptions there too. Our office then wasn't as big as yours is now. It was in one of the small rooms in the northwest corner on the main floor. The Old College Parlor. 4'Now, you know we never had many pictures taken in those days, bust one day some of us fellows were rummaging around in the old store rooms they used to have on the top floor of the building, and here we ran across an old picture of a group of students. I can 't say just when it was taken. It must have been before 1866 though, for I remember that man Dreisbach as a mein- ber of the first graduating class, and G. W. Sindlinger graduated the year I came to school. One morning in chapel, President Smith read the rules to us and then each one of us was given a copy. I have mine yet somewhere, let me see, maybe I brought them along. He handed me a much worn, crumpled paper and these are some of the things I read: Study hours shall be as follows: 515 A. M. to breakfast, from the first bell after breakfast to 12, from 1-4 P. M. and from 7-9 during the 13 ii '2l 5 1151 if I ' ' - ' 1 - 7- 1, ,,.

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NOETWWSTERN- SPECTRUM The Old Office. I remember so Well when the societies began to take in lady members. A reporter came out here from a Chicago paper to learn the real facts and the next day the paper came out with a long column on 'Co-education, the Ad- vance of the Day,' and Went on to state that at North Western College at Naperville ladies Were even urged to take part in public exercises. And now, nearly every day We read of Women who are managing big business houses, voting at elections and all that sort of thing. I Wonder if that reporter is still living and what he thinks now. The Museum was moved into larger quarters from the room right across the hall from the chapel to the top floor. Some made a big fuss about having so much room, but just today the curator Was saying, 'We need more room, l haven 't room to Workf The Commercial Department grew especially large. They had their rooms in the basement of the chapel wing. We used to go down to the old library, can it be-yet it must be, it was that room up there Cpointing to Prof. Smith'sj, and While We couldn't boast of more than a few hundred volumes, they were used. I was down in the fine building that is the library now, a short time ago, and those dear old books that We used to love and pore over are now The Bird Room of the Museum. 15