University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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 Spring at the wing door Green living room fireplace Study date at the libe ? The smoothness of operation of such a large dormitory must naturally be largely a student function directed by capable heads. In addition to the direc- tors of Bartlett Hall, there has been formulated the Bartlett Hall Council with officers and committee chairman who direct the activities of the dormitory as a whole. With the end in view of obtaining group interest and cooperation, the various class groups, especially the freshmen, have been given rooms in the same section of the building. To aid the residents in adjustment and to aid in keeping discipline, corridor chairmen and Senior advisors handle many of the smaller matters of adjustment, and problems of keeping order as well as direct- ing activities in which their particular corridor takes part. This plan of direction has been found to be a very successful method of making arrangements for the betterment of the dormitory as a place in which the girls may live and study to their own best advantage and that of their neighbors, and will continue in operation as an important part of campus administration. As an important part of the year's activities, Bartlett Hall annually sponsors several dances to which the girls invite their own guests. Those of the schedule for the year 1937-1938 were the fall dance, termed the ''Spooks Spree'' and held during the last of October, and a pleasant dance in the early part of April which carried the name of ”Co-ed Capers. Pag© 31

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Built with the aim in view of providing suitable living quarters for a large proportion of the women students in attendance at Iowa State Teachers College, Bartlett Hall stands as the largest single building on the campus. Extending for over four hundred feet along the north border of the campus, and having four wings each a hundred feet in length, it provides facilities for housing better than five hundred students. The building has the best of modem facilities — showers, steam heat, janitor service and other equally valuable aids to comfort- able existence. Recreational facilities are also adequately provided for. The Blue Kitchen and the Yellow Kitchen each have neces- sary equipment for the holding of small informal parties and buffet suppers, and are widely used by the various women's so- cial groups on the campus. In the Green and Rose living rooms the girls may spend time comfortably lounging, or entertaining masculine friends in the afternoon and early evening. In a small recreation room off the Blue Kitchen, ping-pong tables and other equipment are provided. Pag© 30

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Now in its second year of existence as the first men's dormitory at Teachers' College, Baker Hall presents an excellence of modern comfort not to be bettered at any similar institution in the country. Its rooms are ideally planned for the well being and comfort of the men who live in them — from the excellent single beds and comfortable chairs to built-in wash basins and individual study desks. Outside of the rooms the rest of the dormitory presents the aspect of a beautifully planned and furnished men's club, with a spacious lobby and solarium equal to the finest that any middle- western hotel offers to its public, with the added advantage that it belongs to the men and no one else. Washroom facilities are constructed of gray marble with chromium plated fittings, and include lavatories and showers of the latest types. Recreational activities have also been well provided for in a large game room on the basement floor, which is equipped with ping-pong, pool, and billiard tables. With an eye for beauty, the main stairway ,has been made circular. Pago 32