Campus 1940 - 41

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C'est Vrai: UL building boom needed for record freshman class My Acadiana Diary column about the big building boom in 1940 on the UL campus prompted Paul Bergeron to reflect that the buildings were needed because the school was on the grow. He was a freshman in May 1940, he says, and he wasn't alone. "Of the 2,403 students mentioned, more than 800 were freshmen," he writes "There are 872 pictured in the 1940 yearbook, but probably some of them dropped out. At the time we reported for the fall semester in 1939, it was announced by the school registrar that it was the largest freshman class ever." He says that may have been because that class was one of the first to be impacted way back in the first grade when Huey Long's free books and free transportation policies went into effect. The rest of the story C'est Vrai Jim Bradshaw

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Stephens Library, around the time of its construction.

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The North Gate, 01.22.1940, with 2.5 inches of snow.

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Cool

[HelmutVII]

I remember that gate. It got smashed by an 18 wheeler and had to be rebuilt. They widened Johnston street and had to rebuild the gate at its current location.

[SMD7636]

I wished the gate and enterance to Martin Hall matched the exterior brick of the rest of the campus.

[USL1970]

I think the original gate and entrance was a closer match to the old Martin Hall. The red brick theme came later.