Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Droopy drawers. Two gobs and a kid. for increased facilities is apparent. The proposed field house will be attached to the present gym and would have seating accommodations for 2500 spectators. The trustees, faculty, and alumni have shown great vision in building this Institute to its present high stature—but this is just the beginning. Traditionally the biggest social event of the year, this year’s junior Prom was by no means an exception. The big weekend began with the dance on Friday night as the couples swung to the fabulous music of Ralph Marterie and his orchestra until the wee hours of the morning. There were only a few who did not remain right up until the final strains of “Goodnight, Sweet¬ heart. The intermission lift was provided by Normy Locke and The backbone of our defense.

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Here we shall reside. The beginning. instead of down and the building itself began to take shape. Construction went on until early in January when the first heavy snowfall of the season brought the work to a grinding halt. Come Spring, however, work was underway again and all indications are that Morgan Hall will be ready and waiting for the eager freshmen, as well as many upperclassmen, next September. The dormitory is named in honor of the Morgan family which has served the Institute so well for so many years. Early in February, with still a foot of snow covering the ground, preliminary work on the new physics build¬ ing was underway. This began with the erection of a pair of construction shacks just a few days prior to the ground-breaking ceremony. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Horn of the Olin Foundation, which last year made a grant of over one and one-quarter million dollars for the construction of the building. The building will be known as the Olin Laboratories, and will fulfill the long-felt need for adequate facilities for the Physics Department. It will contain complete laboratory facili¬ ties as well as four classrooms. The other construction projects which are included in the current plan are a central library, a new field house, and remodeling of the Salisbury and Atwater-Kent Lab¬ oratories. Worcester Tech is probably the only major tech¬ nological college in the country which does not have central library facilities. The new library would not replace the present departmental libraries, however, but would supplement them, providing a pleasant environ¬ ment in which students can study and have accessible books and periodicals in all fields—not only in science and technology, but in humanities and business studies as well. The Alumni Gymnasium was constructed well over forty years ago when the total enrollment at Tech was less than half the present number. Add to this the in¬ crease in varsity and intramural activities and the need

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Our tippling Monk. his dixieland group who really put on a show at the dance and at one of the fraternity houses afterwards. Saturday was a beautiful day for a picnic and almost all the fraternities took advantage of it as they gathered at various pic¬ turesque locations throughout the area. The first signs of Spring were evident everywhere and everyone enjoyed them providing thev could stay awake. J J Everyone hurried back that evening, however, to get a good seat for the Masque presentation of “Mr. Roberts. From a highly rated novel, to a hit on Broadway, to Hollywood as a movie, and last but by no means least, to the Alden stage. That’s quite a tour. It was a well performed piece of showmanship on the Plunk. Mirror, mirror, on the wall ....