University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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• The Physical Education Building, with its Cage, v as horn to concert artists as well as athletes. The infirmary . . . not expanded in proportion to th increased student body . . . ready to minister to our need? Mem Hall, with its comfortable couches and juke b ' most popular rendezvous on campus. we spent a great deal of time at the COL- LEGIAN, HANDBOOK, QUARTERLY, and INDEX. When we needed nourishment, we dropped in at the U-Store, the most popular course on campus. The infirmary, although it was not expanded in proportion to the increased student body, was ever-ready to minister to our medical needs. A medical office also was established in the Phys- ical Education Building, with various medical facilities on hand to attend to the athletes. During our undergraduate years we saw the name changed from Massachusetts State Col- lege to the University of Massachusetts. The physical plant was expanded by more than ten million dollars. The School of Physical Education was reorganized and revitalized, with

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w of the student, could always be belabored by us when grades and conduct were below what we ourselves imagined them to be. We decided on our major course of study and lent our talents to the various extra-curricular activities. The Pond was an Important spot on campus with nearly every walk leading by it. It mode for convenient Ice-skating In the winter, and proved useful to the entomology students In the worm weather. Mem hHall, with Its comfortable couches, ping-pong tables, bowling alleys, and juke box was, with the possible exception of North Col- lege ' s U-Store, the most popular rendezvous on campus. Those of us who became campus wheels adopted Mem os a second home, for Now, while memories are fresh upon us, let us look bock over the years at Massachusetts

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We recall our initial sight of the campus, and buildings whose names we had not yet come to know. ' The quiet, rustic town of Am- herst, deep in the Connecticut Valley ... an ideal location to spend four college years. The physical plant wc ponded by more than ti million dollars. ' ere assigned dormitory rooms . . . the nor- nol freshman class enrollment was increased to light hundred, and the graduate school showed 3rd registration.