I know the feeling. I was a poor college student 46 years ago.Originally Posted by BoutThemDawgs
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I know the feeling. I was a poor college student 46 years ago.
and you walked to and from class in Hale Hall through the snow uphill both ways!
Well, I wasn't in Hale Hall. But in the 4 years I was at TECH...it snowed twice. And yes...I walked to class in it.
Did they sell turkey quills and india ink in the bookstore then?Well, I wasn't in Hale Hall. But in the 4 years I was at TECH...it snowed twice. And yes...I walked to class in it.
No, but the bookstore was about a 6th of the size that it is now. You weren't allowed to hold hands with a girl on campus. Girls...ladies...were not allowed to smoke in the tonk, but guys were. The guys had to wear a button down shirt with slacks.....a tie was optional. Girls had to wear a dress or skirt. (I Guess you could say dress was semi-formal.) Most of the clasrooms had no air conditioning and the heat was steam heat.
Sounds like heaven, except the no AC part. I was treated to three-to-a-room in J-Mac in the fall of 78 with no AC, but then moved up to a Neilson penthouse with cool-water AC in spring and never looked back.
Bump
Living large indeed!
Okay, Okay - Freshman year, three men to a room THATCHER HALL second floor. The whole year we closed our window one time. That happened in February, 1962, the night after a snowfall (significant). I cannot tell you what the temperature was, exactly, but it was single digit. Yes, steam heat on the second floor.
Actually, we had a big bon-fire the next morning, as the "T" building behind Carson-Taylor burned up!
Girls had to wear dresses or skirts to class. (I almost said were not allowed to wear pants or shorts, but that really would have caused a stir). They used to wear rain coats over their PE uniforms to walk to the football field for field hockey. Girls also had restricted hours graduated by what year they were in and what night of the week. Freshmen girls could stay out 'til 9pm week nights if they were in the library (made that a popular place).
I never stayed in Hale either. Got my freshman room reservation in early and was in Richardson. Still three to a room with only two closets. Had one single bed and one bunk bed, three chests of drawers and three desks with chairs and only one sink. Yes we had running water in those days, and yes it was crowded.
Really didn't need air conditioning so much. School didn't start until mid to late September until we went on the Quarter System.
Yep, that is EXACTLY the way it was. And the guys had to wear lace up shoes or loafers....no sandals or tennis shoes.
I remember when the quarter system started...weird for a while...then I liked it.
Some of you students may want to try this................ One of the ways I would meet girls is to carry my umbrella on a cloudy day and hope it would rain. There would always be some nice looking girls that would be stranded because they did not bring their umbrella. They would be standing at a door, looking at the rain, and wondering what they were going to do to keep their hair dry. I would pick one out...walk up and offer to share my umbrella...to walk them to their next class, tonk, their dorm, etc. Of course, I'd have to hold her close, so we would both fit under the umbrella. Then, we would talk while we walked. I met a lot of girls like that and got some great dates too.
The best way to keep in shape was to have a room in Neilson. Although, it was new, about 90% of the time....only one elevator was working. The other 10% of the time...NO elevator was working. It was a long way up the stairs to the 9th floor!
Don't remember any rules about dress for men students. Button down shirts were about all you could get in those. A few polos, but definitely no tees. Might have been a "rule" against tennis shoes, but no one wore them except to gym or for sports. Just style, I guess. As for slacks , I didn't have many. Mostly wore jeans, sometimes the white ones. Knew a lot of guys from cities (my roommates were from pineville) and they wore slacks because that's what they wore in high school. A tie to class -- can't recall seeing any except some of the professors. And Yes I graduated the year before 70TECHGRAD. I was an engineering student, so maybe some of the other guys wore ties. Everyone did dress up for football games, not just home coming. Not so much for basketball.
The Frat guys usually wore a tie all the time. I wore one on occassion.
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