Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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An architectural competition was held by the Univer- sity in 1934, judged by the Trustees ' Committee on Hous- ing and the Executive Council. The plan for a campus de- signed by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott was selected. In October, 1934, the Trustees established the Committee on Development to raise funds for the con- struction of the first building. The optimism of the Trustees is seen in their adoption during a time of eco- nomic depression, of a plan calling for the construction of six buildings at a cost of over $3.5 million. FIRST HOCKEY GAME AT NORTHEASTERN WILL BE i PLAYED TUESDAY, JAN. 8 INTERCLASS PUCK SHOOTERS START NEW HUSKY SPORT JANUARY 3, 1929 The immediate construction of at least one building became vital as it was realized that the College of Engineering would not be accredited unless it had more adequate facilities. Funds for the first building were raised by widespread solicitation. When the building was completed, its $800 thousand cost had been met by a mortgage which was cleared in 1940. Ground was broken for the first building on September 29, 1937, and the cornerstone was laid in November. The new structure, designated as the West Building, was occupied in June, 1938. In October, 1938, at the Fortieth Anniversary and Dedicatory Exercises held in the Boston Opera House, the West Building and the university ' s new building at 47 Mount Vernon Street were dedicated. The later was called the School of Law Building, and had been bought and renovated to provide space for day and evening law classes which had begun in Sep- tember of that year. NOVEMBER 21, 1928 TELEVISION TALK BY J. W. HORTON BEFO RE ENG INEERS Meeting in Cruft Laboratory at Harvard with Twenty-One N. U. Men Present Last Friday evening at 8.00 p.m., the Boston Section of the American Institute of Radio Engineers held a meeting in the Cruft Laboratory at Harvard University. The speaker of the evening, Mr. J. W. Horton, formerly of the Bell Laboratory, gave a very lucid illustrated lecture on the Transmission of Images, an explanation of the theory under- h-ing Tclc Msion. Twenty-one Northeastern Uni- versity students were represented at this eminent gathering of one hundred radio engineers and college professors. This is an unprecedented record and shows the keen interest displayed by the Northeastern elec- trical students in their chosen pro- fession. Har -ard was represented by Dr. Kennelly and Professors Pierce and Chaflee of the Faculty. The Northeasieni Student Branch of the A. I. E. E. plans to have both Mr. Horton and Dr. KenneUy talk at future meetings at the school. Mr. P. W. Peek of the Pittsfield Works of the General Electric Co. i Section of the American Institute of I Electrical Engineers, Tuesday even- ing, December 4 at 8.00 p.m. in Tremont Temple. | DECEMBER 12, 1928 Moving Picture Machine Proves of Value to N. U. The moving picture machine again proved its vast utiHty other than providing amusement last Tuesday evening when the track squad was shown instructive pic- tures and slides. The idea of this meeting was to show the different members of the squad their faults on the track. Pictures had been taken previously of different men in action and these were flashed on the screen in slow-motion. The faults of each man were pointed out, and conse- quently not onlj ' those in question but everj ' one present received the benefits. There were also many slides of Oljnnpic stars shown. The meeting was similar to ' ' black- board practice plus the advantage of seeing the faults as they were pointed out. The meeting was planned especially as an instruction meeting and the men carried away with them many good points that may make them winners in the nearby season. About thirty members of the squad listened to Mr. Edward S. Parson ' s talk illustrated by instruc- tive rno Hes. Sixty-five Enthusiastic Puck Chasers Answer Call For Candidates SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED Captains and Managers Elected With Fine Prospects For Big Year At a meeting held in 6-H on Tuesday noon, sixty-five candidates answered a call for class hockey teams. !Mr. Nelson Raymond, a member of the Faculty, was in charge of the meeting. General instructions concerning the forma- tions of the teams and of the running of the series were a n- nounced. After the general business was finished, the gathering split up into groups and each class pro- ceeded to form its hockey team and to elect captains and managers. The Sophomores, with twenty- two men reportiiT:;:, h .il the largest ::r„ui PR-oni V,,,- ,-... , ' ,,.,1; ..-ns c:c. ■ , , -.T and ' ' i! I • , s ' .biiity for Ills .,- : , -raduate of e ' J in hockey Edilie Demp- scy of i. ' ijricord T T fame will be in the Soph line-up. The Seniors present the most bril- liant array of stars in their pro- spective line-up. George Martin, Varsity polc-vaulter extraordinary, is captain and will play at center {Conlh ' .ui-d an page 3) l S. and Aloc ' navn The West Building provided more class- rooms, laboratories, an enlarged book- store, and general service areas. The new Department of Chemistry offices were dedicated in the Fortieth Anni- versary ceremonies as the Charles Hayden Memorial Laboratories. On May 7, 1941, the Trustees gave the West Build- ing a permanent name and unveiled a tablet in the lobby designating the building as Richards Hall, af- ter James Loring Richards, an industrialist and hon- orary degree recipient from Northeastern. Richards had been on the Board of Trustees since 1935 and had been a charter member of the newly organized Northeastern University Corporation. He was re- sponsible for raising more than half of the money which paid for construction of the West Building. As the campus became a visible entity, the col- leges were expanding and developing, simulta- neously requiring the provision of more space. In 1936, the Cooperative Engineering School became the College of Engineering, but the greater devel-

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On the administration front, separation from the YMCA was marked in 1932, by the election of Robert Gray Dodge as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He was the first chairman not on the YMCA Directors Board. This event followed on the heels of a report delivered to the Trustees in 1931, which recommended reconstitution of the Board of Trustees. The proposal expanded the Board to 45 members and stipulated that YMCA Directors should never be in a majority. The reason given to justify this proposal was that large po- tential benefactors might hesi- tate to support an organization which was controlled by an- other. At this period in North- eastern ' s history, when money was being sought to launch a building plan, that justification was considered valid. In 1935, Avery Churchill, Vice President of the univer- sity, presented a temporary or- ganization chart detailing an interlocking directorate with 10 members simultaneously serving on the YMCA Board and the Northeastern Trustees Board. In that same year the words, . . . of the Boston YMCA were dropped from the name Northeastern University. CHARLES HAVICE LIBRARY SITE The By-Laws of the university were amended in 1936 to formalize the Corporation of 75, with the Board of Trustees to be elected from and by its membership. There were to be four standing committees on the Board: Exec- utive, Development, Funds and Investments, and Housing. ELECTRICAL MEASURE LABORATORY

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opment was happening in Liberal Arts. The College of Liberal Arts began in 1935, with 35 students on the co-op plan. The college was an outgrowth of the Evening Division ' s Lincoln School of Liberal Arts, which had of- fered a junior program in cultural fields culmi- nating in an Associate of Arts degree. According to the 1935 Catalog, the School of Arts and Sciences was established on two prin- ciples: that a man should have a broad under- standing of the main currents of human activ- ity ; and that studies without sacrificing their liberal value , should prepare a man for a use- ful career. Contribution to human welfare, in short, is regarded as the chief end of scholarship. Concurrent with the academic growth, was the continuing growth in Student Activities. The second Director of Stu- dent Activities, from 1926 to 1929, was Professor Harold W. Melvin, who had joined the faculty in 1920 and became head of the English department the following year. In 1929, Melvin was ap- pointed the first Dean of Students and his position in activities was filled by Edward S. Parsons. Under these men new activities grew and existing activi- ties flourished. Sigma Delta Epsilon, an honor society in the new College of Business Ad- PARSONS ministration was founded in 1925. A revamped Stu- dent Council came to life 1924. In the same year a Student Union was formed, with Milton J. Schlagenhauf as its fac- ulty advisor and its purpose stated to broaden engineering education by lectures, trips, and religious activities. From 1922 until 1926, the new College of Business Administration developed a group of activities paralleling those of the Engineering School. They organized their own dramatic club. Student Union, Student Council, orches- tra, newspaper (The Bulletin) and yearbook (The Administrator, first published in 1926). The impracticality of such duplication led to the combining of groups in the next few years. The Bulletin fused with The Tech to become the Northeastern News, in February, 1926; and in 1929, the Administrator joined with the ADMINISTRATOR AND CAULDRON COMBINE TO MAKE ONE YEARBOOK Tearhoo Co Editor JAMES J. HOULAHAN JANUARY 16, 1929 SEPTEMBER 26, 1928 STUDENT UNION TO SHOW FIRST UNIVERSITY FILM Here ' s the big chance you fellows have been waiting for! The Student Union announces that they are going to run some FREE movies in Bates Hall to- moiTOw, Thursday, from one o ' clock until quarter of two. The movie is a University film and shows some of the high Ughts of student activ- ities here at Northeastern during the past year. Veron A. Love 1929E is in charge of the movie show. This will be the only opportunity for many of the upperclassmen to see this film, especially the Seniors. Students are always thinking up new ways of profitably spending their noon hour, and the Student Union is offering a fine solution for one of them at least. STAFF SOON TO ORGANIZE FOR THE 1929 ISSUE Grammontand Houlahan Elected Editors of the Combined N. U. Publication ADDED FEATURES ValmoreR. Grammont, 1929E. of Gardner, and James J. Houlahan, 1929BA, of Milton, as co-editors, head the staff of the 1929 issue of the yearbook. Grammont and Hou- lahan are both activities men, Houla- han having been chairman of the Junior Prom Committee, while Grammont has served on nominat- ing and social committees for the Engineers in his freshman and soph- omore years. This is the first time in the his- tory of the Day Division that the two schools have combined to issue a yearbook. In the past years the Engineers have p ublished the Catil- dron, while the B.A. men Lssued the Adminisiratar. The new book this year will be no larger than the 1928 issue of the Cauldron. It vnW contam the same amount of material, including inter- esting histories and pictures of seniors, the write-ups of the year ' s activities, and pictures of the vari- ous organizations. Additional fea- tures may be added. It is the plan of the co-editors to have the work of producing the book well under way before the end of this period. The staff is now being organized and they will aid the edi- tors in getting off to an early start. The Department of Publications, of which Prof. Stanley G. Estes is the head, is seeking a name for this book. Students who have sugges- tions for a name are urged to present them to the editors. The photographic work this year will be done by Wairen Kay Vantine, the photographer for last year ' s Cauldron and Administrator . Con- tracts for engraving and printing are vet to be placed. ,