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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Wilson Chem Lab I Borden ' s Laboratory are a familiar sight around this Michigan Boulevard Louvre. So much so in fact, that the lions usually nod pleasantly to us as we mount the steps. The Art In- stitute is of particular benefit to our Humanities and Fine Arts classes, both for its use as a labo- ratory for first hand study, and for the Institute lecturers who come to Wilson and verbally trace for us the development of sculpture and painting through the ages — with vividly illustrated colored slides. Our own Arts Room reflects much of this benevolent influence in the surprisingly good student paint- ings on exhibition there. The Field Museum is another cultural mecca for Wilsonites, with its authentic Egyptian Hall, its mineral displays, and its com- prehensive anthropological exhib- its running from Cro-Magnon through Superman rendering it invaluable to Physical Science, Humanities, and Biological Science classes. For the more materialistic- minded student there is the Rosenwald Museum of Science and Industry, where he may have his fill of twirling complicated dials, manipulat- ing toy airplanes, and playing with thousand volt sparks. Much of this mechanical doodling may also be had in our own well-equipped Physical Science Museum. But our campus does not confine its instruc- tional efforts merely to carefully planned ex- hibits and the stored-up knowledge and culture of the past. It also employs one of the most ancient, most fundamental forms of education known to man. Oxir campus teaches by example. The small army of Wilson clubs and organi- AT THE AW INSTITUTE, iALPmE MEHTS HIS BUDtV, HEttBlE FbCSHDBT. ENTH«AU£D, TMEY APM ftC THB BEAUT tVU 9A WnN S, AHEtt WCM T »ey 60 JeT A B -COV.E THEN OH TO THE FIELD W )SBOM, THE AOLEC PLAHETft«L»UM, AND