Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Physical education plant. Projects amounting to ten and a half million dollars have just been completed, are in progress and about to be built. These include the East Green 1 1-dorm project which will house 2100 men when completed. The Commerce Building has already become another landmark on the OU campus by being the tallest building yet. And the latest de- velopment are plans for the first unit — a skating rink — of a three unit physical education plant. Funds for these projects come from three sources: bonds, state funds and contributions made by students themselves. Site of first OU building, 1808. Growth of a building. i E II H 111 nut- '

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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

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Really tough finding an original shot GfoM With electrical precision the bells rang at ten minutes after the hour, and you had to be there, whether the class was at 7 a.m. while most people were having breakfast, at the noon hour, or on Saturday morning when the campus slept. You took notes or doodled or participated in a glorified bull session directed by the professor. Sometimes you relaxed, after each class ended, when the day ' s last class was over, and especially when the welcome weekend rolled around. And invariably you looked forward to the vacations. You knew it was a false relief — you still had work to be done. But the pressure was gone, class was over. Check, double check First aid, first hand