Woodrow Wilson Junior College - Profile Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Rosenwald Museum Our campus is no ordinary campus. For one thing, it ' s slightly larger. It sprawls over 294 square miles of noisy, crowded city, smoothly blending together dusty railroad yards and vel- vety green parks, worn, dirty tenements and bright suburban cottages, tree-studded boule- vards and garbage-laden al- leys, the crystal clarity of Lake Michigan and the oily scum of the Chicago River. All this is our campus by the same token that the world is our oyster. It ' s all right here waiting for us to pry off the shell. And it doesn ' t have to exercise much patience as far as we of Wilson are concerned. In fact, we ' ve pried off this shell so thoroughly and so often by our constant usage of all the city ' s facilities that we ' ve claimed it as our campus — not our campus in the usual, limited sense of the word, not just an inane, grassy little park connecting a few ivy-cornered buildings but a huge, living metropolis at our service, crammed with libraries, stockyards, employment oppor- tunities, concert halls, burlesque theatres, stock exchanges, and people of all sizes, creeds, and nationalities. You can already see what a wide gap there THtS S RAUPW UllLSON. WE IS ft STUDEt T OF OUR. School. HE s wmtinc- foR his cau- WVi CTeErrcAc. ie is going, to our. GREAT DOWNTOWM CAMPOS. RALPA »S OING T0AB56CB OULTuCE AMD KNOUOLEO e.

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NEARlNG UIS DESTINATION, RAtPHlE (OOE ' U CAU, Him RAL.PHIE FOR SHORT) py 59ES THeoOftA M ONSAVOPy DtST 2»OT- COMMON LV HKlOWN ASSaTW STATE STRECT- OT RAlPWE 0 ' 1 AIWP )UUV IS- NORES i ' s iZVD ) lWCS- HE SEEk? CULTURE. is between our campus and the glorified play- grounds attached to most universities. This space is even further widened when you real- ize the enormous educational worth of our campus. A glimpse into the John Crerar Library jus across from the Chicago Public Library wil always disclose a few Wilsonians scattered about at the various tables hyp- notized by the pithy fine print of some bulky reference volume. English 102 students bring their thick stacks of note cards here and set down enough jottings to convoy them safely through their term papers. Students in the sciences flock here to im- merse themselves in the un- equalled collections of scien- tific works. It ' s not every campus that has the finest reference library in the country located so con- veniently right in its center. Outside the field of strictly reference books, we need only to cross Randolph Street to have the Public Library ' s massive typographical col- lections at our beck and call-slip. These two ware- houses of erudition, when added to the many branch libraries and the excellent, amazingly versatile library to be found in our own miniature Chicago, form a gar- gantuan bookshelf always available for use. And then there ' s the Art Institute. Wilson students Soldiers Field