Microcosm, 1944 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Microcosm, 1944

Its first meeting last spring, it was unanimously decided that this MIC would have to be different. We would have snappier layouts, more candids, many line cut illustrations, and, above all, a theme that would set it off from any Other MIC. After much thought and con centration, we hit upon the fact that in war time people very often look back to what has gone before, making comparisons with the present inorder to predict the future, and we decided to apply this fact to MIC. It would have been nice if this had been an anniversary year of some kind, but the only anniversary we could hnd is that this is the 35th volume of MIC. However, we decided to go ahead with our comparison of the infant Simmons with the Simmons of 1944 anyway. We have tried to carry out our theme through the line cut illus trations and in the writing. We have included a back ground history of the college and have slanted the rest of the copy with an eye to the way things were when Simmons was a bare building standing almost alone beside the city dump. We have come to the conclusion that great strides have been made since then - socially, architecturally, economically, and, last but n0t least, intellectually. Our prediction? That Simmons will con.

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