Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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] « m m j People, prols, personol problems. Joke slaxed flTof people, profs, and personal proJ ims, you went to the Frontier Room j ne neighboring Bunch of Grapes Room. Dg airs, at the lowest level of t he build- ing j| |oked more and laughed, because you ipeted at the same time. In the lounges upstairs you often ignored your magazine or television to tell a friend your troubles, or just to inform someone about how the world crises should be settled. And while you talked and listened and your mind was stimulated, your student leaders meeting in the same building dis- cussed objectively and guided you. Unnoticed television.

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• Relaxed, earnest talk. The Ohio University Center was for you an arena for dis- cussion, for verbal settlement of problems of the world, for presentation of vital ideas and principles. But your discussion here was not the forced, adverb-clogged speech of the classroom. Rather, it was the relaxed, earnest talk of the thinking student. The necessary thought and research beforehand and the later inquiries of your aroused interest did not necessarily take place in the Center. But here, more g-t La o nywriPrp else on campus, you discussed, and decisions were gufied and lives were shaped. Even when you came to the Center to dance or to bowl, seriousK sometimes lightly.

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iii !■■ ' - mi rei.-L. CUi aiPew fwmt When the first brick was used to start the first building on the Ohio University campus, it was to build a two-story, two-room brick structure at the cost of $500. Only a sundial behind Memorial Auditorium marks where that building stood and Cutler Hall, McGuffey and Wilson are the only buildings that remain from that period. Since t hen a hundred times the cost has been spent to build structures ten times the size of that first building. And the campus has grown to what it is today Eleven-dorm project