Rare in Eastern colleges but common in the Middle West is an institution known as the Student Union. Boasting dining halls, ballrooms, bowling alleys, soda fountains, lounges, music rooms, cinemas, nightclubs, Student Unions in the last ten years have become the social centres of the huge State universities.
Last week University of Minnesota capped them all with a new Union that rivaled the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
No rich man's college, Minnesota, second biggest U. S. university (first: California), is a vigorous, booming educational service station like Ohio State (TIME, Jan. 22). Many of its 15,000-odd students are poor and doggedly hardworking. To...
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