University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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New lampus Far Cr From Cardboard Collegew Of course the shacks are still with us. but even to those seniors who started University life here in the fall of IU46. little else remains to hint at the Campus they knew that year. The toltering Anastasia building was the main seat of the University. Hllardboard Collegev, a nickname which shortly became very inappropriate. was still popular with students and townpeople alike because of the helter-skelter erection of paperboard par- titions to meet any and all expansion problems. 'l'oday's campus had begun to rise even then. however. Seeing a record enrollment in the olling. llniversity of- licials rushed to create a Campus to assimilate it. By the second semester the North wing of the lVlemorial classrooms was completed and a lucky few students escaped the sweltering shacks. which had been erected as temporary classrooms. To accommodate the masses of new freshmen. a South campus was fashioned from an abandoned Blimp base. By the next year the Memorial Classrooms were com- pleted. and a lVlain campus Adminfstration building had begun to function. Science labs were set up. Wox'k was begun on an ultramodern campus housing development. and the Student Club. With completion ol' the housing the frosh retreated from inaccessible South Campus. and at last the Uni- versity plant was nearly unified. lffforts to resurrect the uskeletoni' resulted in completion of a modern structure this year. and the library moved in along with faculty' and students to admire and use it. With its picture cropping up again and again in architect's periodicals and occasionally' a national picture magazine. l-M lzegan to look and feel like the most Ct modern llniversity in the country. THE STUDENT CLUB w 1

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