Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Mass meetings were held by every class and they were poorly at- tended by every class, but the oppor- tunity was there, you were free to go or not to go. They let you decide. And, thank God for the Greenleaf Building: our one blessing of ivy was abundant there.

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Walking through the Fen- way you came upon the Gardner Mu- seum, the palace home that repre- sented Boston at its height, and you wondered what you would have done back in those days. f vm»3flfl. ' »rv Down the street was Sym- phony Hall, and for 60 cents you could see the Boston Symphony on Friday afternoons. You cut class, but it was worth it. You were developing, learn- ing. Downtown, the gold- domed Statehouse. After awhile you ' d walk right by it, an experienced ur- banite, but Bullfinch had done a pret- ty good job. The poli-sci majors knew everything that went on beneath the dome and they talked long and loud in the Commons. You just listened, and you learned.

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Coke cans replaced the smuggled-in beer cans at the games. They were everywhere. Everywhere too were the wrecking cranes, destroy- ing the old to make way for the new. And everywhere too were those Got- cha NU signs. and this is Northeastern, this is a little b it of what she is, what she was. she was many things to many people and we all saw her from our particu- lar view, she was friends, and teachers, and buildings, and commuting, and living in, and libraries, and exams, and Com- mons coffee, and bad food in the grad center, and the nu news on friday and people, and most of all, she was a part of us. she always will be. she is our alma mater.