Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Education Waits, Patiently CLASS HISTORY 1955 - 1960 By C31AIG CLEVERLY The history of the Class of I960 commenceth thus: In the beginning (of September 1955) Northeastern created the Class of I960. And the Administration said, ' Let there be Orientation ' : and there was Orientation. There certainly was! It may not have been the lines, the payments, the sales talks, and the registra- tation, but most of us who went through it would fight for its being placed high on the list. When we finally came whirling away from the lines, the payments, the salestalks, and the registra- tion forms, we were whirled into classes the follow- ing Monday. Which didn ' t help the confusion a bit. But as the year charged on (since NU ' s 10 week terms are conducted at a pace approximating jet- propulsion) we gradually got oriented to it all, or thought we did. As a matter of fact, we were the largest Freshman class in the University ' s history, with 1760 of us gumming up the local works. But then, it seems as though every successive Freshman class has been billed as the largest in the history of Northeastern, so 1760 must be a mere drop in the present bucket. Somehow the class managed to make order out of its 1760 member chaos, and elected officers, class board, and all the executive paraphernalia that no- body (except members) seems to know anything about. A Freshman Talent Show was staged by these groups, and the Freshman class celebrated the end of its third term by Dancing In The (virtual) Dark at the Continental. The University participated in a Ford Foundation mass shell-out for teachers ' salary raises, receiving $650,000 for said worthy cause. One biggish news item was the Masque ' s doing South Pacific as one of the musical ' s first produc- tions off Broadway — but not too far off, in the creative hands of die Blackmaniacs. An interesting sidelight occurred late in the year, when Ford Frick, National Commissioner of Base- ball, participated in unveiling ceremonies of a plaque commemorating the first World Series long- merry ago at the site of Northeastern.

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And so we eventually became Sophomores, with a term of co-op between us and Freshmanhood — which enabled us to look down our worldly-wise noses at the Freshman fresh from Orientation. But some of the gloating and joy at finally being Sophomores was dampened by a $75 increase in upperclass tuition that year. Even at that, though, engineers ' tuition was only (only??) $260 — which was to seem like the good old days by the time we were Seniors. That ' s where my money goes . . . And one of the places was into the construction of the Classroom-Laboratory Building, which was at first designated A Building (for $1,800,000 I should hope they got a building out of the deal). But soon it was dubbed Hayden Hall, thus enabling professors to tell their classes with utmost academic impunity to Go to H. That year — and our Senior year too — were the big years for building- naming, with the gym becoming the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Physical Education Center (when they name a building they certainly do go all out). And speaking of the gym, the NE ' WS reported on March 1, 1957, that NU had bought the apartment block just west of the GLCPEC — the g m — for demolition and replacement by a swimming pool. By our Senior year the demo- lition certainly had taken place, but nary a sign of swimming facilities was to be seen. The Sophomore-Middler Dance at the end of Division A ' s January-April term was apparently used to bring a sleep and a forgetting to as many refugees of finals as possible. It was called Rainbow Rhapsody (yet another ethereal confection dreamed up by Dance-Namers Anonymous). and pay again.