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Today is written with dust of the past. by Janies Sutherland These photographs reveal two aspects of the Rochester Insti- tute of Technology. They open the door into the past, and they show the present. More than anything else, they embody the concept of change. In these photographs, where the old and the new campuses stand close together on the pages, the sensation of watching a college change its place and shape and even (to a degree) its purpose for existence becomes real. These photo- graphs are the documents of the great change in the life of the Institute, and what that change represented for everyone who passed through it. Truman Capote once wrote, “I am always drawn back to places where 1 have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For many students and alumni, the old campus still has this peculiar sort of fascination that engenders a desire to return to see how the old place is doing. The old place is vanishing. It is only three years since the Institute began moving from the center of the city to the present sprawling suburban campus, but already the old campus is coming to pieces. By various means, by sale and by vandalism, by the wrecking crew and the construction gang, not much remains of the old campus for those who go back to see the places where they spent years of their lives. The buildings are coming down to bricks and mor- tar and dust on the sidewalks. Those that remain are being al- 4
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tered so that they will be virtually unrecognizable as the struc tures they once were. The old Kate Gleason Hall has been razed. The SAC build- ing and the library are marked to go soon. An extension of some expressway will replace them in due time. The Eastman building and its annex are darkened; no one knows what will happen to those office-and-elassroom buildings. Presumably the wreckers wiII get around to them eventually. The new building at 50 Main Street West is being altered for other In- stitute duties. Of all the buildings on the old campus, the only one that looks like it is really going to resist destruction is old Nathaniel Rochester Hall. It seems to have a peculiar life-style of its own: For many years before it was converted into the men’s dorm it was the Hotel Rochester. Now that the students have left it forever, it is being facelifted and will return to its original trade. In a few more months or years, little of the old campus will remain. It is half gone now, and one can foresee the day when not one of the buildings will be there when an alumnus returns to explore his old haunts. Not that it really matters. Life on the old campus was far from ideal: the buildings were old, dirty, and chilly in winter. In summer, the heat in some of the old brick and wood structures was indescribable. The noise of traf- fic on Plymouth Avenue never stopped: the diesel trucks ground by classes and rooms all day, and at night the fire en- 5
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