Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Since then there have been seven successors to the noble first King Husky. One of the most memorable was King Husky V, who showed his displeasure with a negative Beanpot outcome by wandering onto the ice and leaving a little something for the opposing team to consider. Long live the King!

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A SIDEHILL GOUGER? By 1927, it was getting darned em- barrassing. Northeastern had grown to more than 5,000 students and was pre- paring to field sports teams, yet there was no mascot. The administration wanted a dog — no irony there — and the students were partial toward the bee, the pig or the sidehill gouger. Since there were few gougers to be had, a champion Alaskan sled dog was procured. King Husky I was a spirited sort, com- ing to NU with a rap sheet that included the untimely demise of nine turkeys, 3 1 chickens, a sheep, and several rabbits. But he showed his fortitude by weath- ering a wet welcoming parade and a tomato pelting by some friendly Terriers from B.U. He was given two honorary degrees to mark the day.

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NU ' s edifice complex It is not true that Northeastern was designed by a blind engineer with a T-Square. It is also not true that the reason the campus looks so uniform is that the builders of the university simply left the buildings in the boxes they came in. It may surprise a lot of North- eastern students but there is a rea- son most of the buildings look the way they do. It all started with the fact that there was a university before there was a campus. Northeastern was formed as an evening education program at the main Boston location for the YM- CA on Boylston Street. In 1896, there were part-time courses in law, electricity, architecture and something entirely new for the time, automobile mechanics. The practicality of the program, as op- posed to the liberal arts education of nearby Harvard and Boston University, eventually led to the development of the vaunted co-op system in 1909. Classes continued to be conduct- ed at the YMCA until a fire de- stroyed the building in 1910. Classes continued at other loca- tions until the mammoth YMCA building on Huntington Avenue was built in 1912. In 1916, the evening program became Northeastern College and started offering daytime courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, economics and manage- ment. In 1917, the college was giv- en permission to grant bachelor ' s degrees. By 1922, the college had become a university and had Continued on Page 21 Not the Land of Oz, but a 1960s plan for Northeastern. A football stadium that was never built. Richardson Plaza sort 20 History