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52 The College of New Jersey Magazine 1. President Roscoe L. West's typewritten signature would have anchored your simple, one-page letter of acceptance. 5. Out sick at home, you could expect emphatic written warnings from those in your circle: Don't come back Thursday. History term paper is due. 4. Radios in residence halls were not allowed to be turned on after 7:30 p.m. Lights were to be out at 11 p.m. on all nights, except Saturday, which bought you an extra hour. TCNJ X10 10 6. Had you been in the Trenton State Teachers College Chorus in 1936, you would have performed at Radio City Music Hall on May 21 at 5:25 p.m. and been back to the residence halls at 12:13 a.m. things you need to know about… STUDENT LIFE IN THE LATE '30s A fragile scrapbook came to us last year chronicling, in archival detail, two years in the life of ELIZABETH S. HURST '39. A Middletown, New Jersey, native, Hurst carefully pinned everything from 1935 to 1937 to the now sepia-colored pages of this overstuffed book: Residence hall rules, letters, ticket stubs, and more. —Renée Olson 2. Your classes for fall 1935 would all have been on the "new college site, Hillwood Lakes." One year of tuition would have set you back $100. 9. The Psychology Club would have been on you like glue for missing two meetings and failing to pay dues. Poor Elizabeth. Students were expected to be at the dining hall for meals on the dot, to stand behind their chairs for silent grace, and to sit only when given the signal from the dean's table. 3. 8. Dean of Students Vernetta F. Decker would leave women students notes about "unswept" and "cluttered" rooms, closing with a pointed reminder to study: "I hear many reports of unsatisfactory work." 7. At an athletics awards banquet, you could expect to dine on chicken fricassee with parsley potatoes and wax beans. 10. You might get chatty letters from mom, like those sharing news of Elizabeth's dad: "Your father took the old bath curtain and made a sail for his boat, he laid it out in the living room. He is some sailmaker."