Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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ix AV.,1K.,,. .M 3.24 iris .fi effing 4' Q -T. T fix X. -n . 1.f,5,,, l -- ll vu s.M..,M-.. 'it X Wi 1 I jr 5 YLLABUS - wsf 'he S ffg'Q . . .,..,,,...,,, , ., ,., .. ,. .. 4 1 The excited freshmen women who orrived ot NU This fdll ond immediotely Took up residence dt Shepord Hdll didn't redlize how lucky they were. lvldny on uppercloss womon envies these freshmen The modern decor ond convenience of The newest dorm on cdmpus. 1954 Dorm notes There They were: 1,500 freshmen, eoger To get into The NU sociol whirl dbout which They'd heord so much. T'But how do we do it? They osked. T'Where do we meet These beoutiful girls The books mentioned? How do we get the boys to dsk us? These doteless freshmen found themselves relying on on old NU custom - The blind ddte. l-low do They get fixed up? Where do They meet? Where do They go? To find The dnswers to These questions, our inquiring photogrdpher, wrdpped in his clodk of invisibility, followed o 'TtypicoI pdir of NUiTes Through one of These excursions. While They might go To d movie, The Thedter, or ony of The other diversions offered by Northwestern ond Chicdgo, This couple went to d formdl donce. Our story storls on Thursddy. Freshmon Bill Amblod knew There wos d formol thot weekend. Would one of his uppercloss brothers find him o dote? T'CerTdinly! Soon Telephone lines were humming, ond The first coll brought him d ddte with fellow freshmdn lvlorgie Nichols. lvlednwhile, whdt wos lvldrgie wondering? Other Thdn height ond IT. T S 3 , T51 lxfiiinifvgm T if X rv- -Qm , T959 Syllalnis l98 I I hoir color, her questions were doomed to go undnswered 'Til They met for 'Tcokes ot The Grill. The night of The donce found our hero struggling with The bone of mole life, The Tuxedo. lvlorgie, bock in Willdrd, wos cdlm ond reody on Time. Formols don't bother girls! For The outcome of The evening, need more be sold Thdn 'look dt The pictures! Christmds ot Northwestern hos spectoculdr trdditions. There is on dnnuol Christmds tree-lighting ceremony in Deering meodow dccompdnied by o corol sing by dll cdmpus housing units. This yeor more Thdn 700 students corried lighted condles in The procession led by The Northwestern chordl union. The chordl union dlso stdrs in The dnnuol Christmos music concerl in Cohn duditorium. The dudience joins in on The singing of fdvorite cdrols. The progrdm included sections by The A CODGIIO choir, chdmber singers, ond The men's ond women's glee clubs. Another Yuletide highlight is The dnnucil porly dt The l-lut, with Honk ond Inf dishing out free food ond Som Resnick ploying Sdnto. 1957 Activities il

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952 - 4959 1 ll E I EI 5 J 10 YILZXBIIS , -- , we , QM,-Hg:-g, -' Larlieva A lilfolsun E A wld I ' ' V' y5-vV,5:g1,,,L-w'5'..g.g4'QG'.f l A mari, 5 Lame lniisin - - l2egisTrdTion wds much The some This duorier, puT our meThod for The remdining QUOITSTS hdd been discdrded in fdvor of The line procedure Three Times o yeor. We pdrgoined wiTh ourselves os usudl To see how quickly we could wind Through The mdze of lines ond ouT ogoin. And os if There weren'T enough lines, we were herded up To Deofoom To hdve picTures Token for o new kind of ID cdrd - non-Tronsferople kind. We loughed dT The sTrdnge, convicT-Iike'imdges on our cords. 1952 Essays People wdlking To closses dlong The ldke on The groy lvldy OHGTDOOD begdn To run. OTher sTudenTs, seeing Them, ron. OTher sTudenTs, seeing Them, rdn, Too. VVhdT's wrong? 'Tl-ley, whdT TWGDDGDGGT' Look ouT There - d plone! IT crdshed inTo The ldke. 1952 News . . , He Thoughi of dll The chdnges since his freshmdn yeor in EvonsTon. The moles' whiTe bucks were sTill The some: sTill much in evidence, sTlIl much in need of o poTTle of whiTe shoe polish. Bui, The lddies. They hdd picked up slyle, Too. They were o conservdTive IoT - dlwdys hdd been. Coeds in oTher Big IO schools hdd been wedring whiTe bucks since They were freshmen, puT iT hdd been spring duorfer of Their junior yeor before The coeds of NorThwesTern hdd picked up The foshion. And The hdir! IT wds geTTing so you hdrdly could Tell The girl's heod from The boys. Poodle cuTs ond cop cuTs. WhdT were The women coming To, dnywdy? Well, he supposed if iT pleosed Them he hdd no couse To compldin. STIII, he wds gldd ThoT Ther hoir wds d decenT IengTh - none of Those silly fdds. There is noThing in The world duiTe like o college womdn's dormiTory or sororiTy house. No pldce is so filled wiTh coke boflles or formols or people ploying bridge. No pldce hos so mdny couples wdTching Television or girls seTTing Their hdir in pincurls or sTuffed dnimdls. No pldce hos more women crowding dT mirrors or doing exercises on The living room rug or sleeping in The dfiemoon. And, iT's hdrd To find d pldce wiTh more frdmed phoTogrdphs of men or more codT hdngers or more sTockings dripping from The shower roll. In fdcT, There dren'T mdny pldces in The world which dre Thoroughly femole upsTdirs ond so coeducoTiondl downsTdirs. iT's been ThdT wdy for d long Time, ond chdnces ore The sysTem is here To sTdy. 1953 Greeks Q

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1960 - 4967 1 K, Tl ,I , -Q! Lhc syllxluis nonnewuavulul The olimox of dll noTionol eleoTion ooTiviTy come in November when DemooroT J.F. Kennedy wos eleoTed presideni. Though only one week before The Big Ten mock eleoTion fovored Nixon, The noTion Turned iTs leodership over To Kennedy. 1961 News TwisT Roges oT NU. lnTroduoed on o smoll soole IosT spring, The loTesT donoe oroze, The lwisT, found iTself The biggesT Thing on The Norlhwesiern oompus This posT yeor. From The Time NUiTes reTurned IosT foil To Todoy, There hos been only one donoe for The mojorily of The oompus sTudenTs. The Twisf livened up The mony foll ouorier open houses held ofTer fooTboll gomes ond wos o populor ond permonenf feoTure oT oll The informol poriies. Alumni ond porenT ohoperones were omozed ond omused oi The donoe's populorily, bui more Thon one porly wos highlighTed by The insTruoTions given To These some ohoperones in The inTrioooies of The TwisT. Buf The populor new donoe didn'T confine iTself To informol ond oosTume porlies - before long iT wos o sTondord iTem on The progrom for oll porties. Pledge formols ond dinner donoes found The TwisT o mosT reouesTed iTem ond bonds found They hod To ploy The opproprioie music if They wonTed o reTum engogemenT for NorThwesTern porlies. Some observers wondered how long The oroze would IosT - ofher observers didn'T Toke The Time - They were 'TTwisTing like They did IosT summer. 1962 News