Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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AS SPRING invaded the classrooms, some students were al)le to convince instructors into holding classes on the lawn or piers. Some classes even had reason to go off campus ... to visit examples of new efforts in theater design or finish surveying assignments. Botany students stayed on, examining and collecting leaves. Art students spent many class periods outside sketching caminis scenes — .soaking up suntans 20

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COMEDY AND TRAGEDY both were used as vehicles to give as- l)iriug actors aiitl acti ' esses actual exi)erience in the theater. Plus the University Theater performances which ran the gamut of effort from Shakespeare to The Girl at Maxim ' s, summer, workshoj:), and readers theaters gave additional opiJortunity for work in the field. The long hours of rehearsal, the crowd-filled perform- ances, and even cast parties after plays simulated actual theater ex]:)eriences 19

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TECH MEN and music might seem to be a strange combination, but members ot the four engineering societies found the mixture not at all unusual. Liberal arts became a important as engineering — during meeting . The Ameri- can Institute of Chemical Engineers — open to anyone in Tech — heard speeches on topics from music to computers. Members also visited chem- ical processing departments of various local in- dustries. Active 1960-61 AIC ' hE members includ- ed Diana Armintrout, Phillip Dlouhy, Norman Fahnoe, Craig Harrison, John Hurlock, Dennis Johnson, Douglas Keilman, Wm. Knodel, Lowell Kohlrust, James Love, James McCabe, Norm Nozin, Herb Ratch, Dave Smith, Joann Temple 21