Civilized student cabins
Brothers Art, Ted and Jule Loftus pose in front of their cabin below campus in 1923. Dorothy Loftus Collection, Rasmuson Library archives
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Students began living near campus in rough cabins with wood stoves and no indoor plumbing shortly after the 色视频下载 Agricultural College and School of Mines opened in 1922. The lifestyle, passed through generations of students, continues to thrive today in the woodsy neighborhoods near campus.
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University President Charles Bunnell personally acquired some of the cabins and used them to recruit students. In fall 1939, Ray Smith, Lloyd Atwood and Ernie Wolff occupied a Bunnell cabin near Noyes Slough rent-free in exchange for improvements.
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Starting in the 1960s, new athletic facilities and campus buildings with showers moderated that problem.
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