Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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warnings of the tremendous growth to come were the gray and white temporary buildings, the L buildings and K buildings. While they did seem to be made of card- board and matchwood, while they did sway and creak in the eternal gales of Queens, cmd while they were consistently and obtusely over-heated from spring to winter, yet they were the first imperfect symbols of the spirit of growth. Another indication of the long-range aims of Queens Col- lege was the small rectangular drawing outside of the President's office showing a campus filled with large white buildings, widely spaced and massive in proportion. A third invisible indication was the Ten-Point plan for the long range expansion of Queens College, the maturing of which we are experiencing right now. When we came, however, there was iust the quadrangle, the two more isolated buildings F and G, the temporary buildings K and L, the Home Economics building, the student building, the bookstore, the wind and the fog.

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The first real construction of the project was the big gym, Q build- ing. Along with the E Annex and K Annex, it was bought from the government as part of Army Surplus, This big white building, by far the largest single room on the campus, was the first indication that Queens College was due for tremendous growth. Unfortunately, the water sys- tem and the nets of electric cable required to service such a large struc- ture had to be laid below the surface of Queens College-a project which involved the first tearing and breach-