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| Will this be on the test? |
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| The year is 1937, and you’re enrolled in the College. Your grades depend on one thing, and one thing only: the comprehensive examinations given at the end of your courses. Your exams would include questions like these (taken from the comps preserved in the Regenstein’s Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center). |
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| Papers, exercises, class attendance, participation—all that counts for naught. Some tests last up to eight hours. This was the system at UChicago for more than three decades—from 1931 to the early 1960s. |
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| Sports: UChicago defeats Northwestern 24–8 |
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| Dean Melina Hale, PhD’98, in the stands with members of the women’s rugby team. |
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| On October 12, Melina Hale, PhD’98, dean of the College, presented the men’s rugby team with the inaugural Hutchins-Scott Cup in recognition of its 24–8 win over Northwestern. |
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| One of the oldest collegiate rugby organizations in the country, UChicago’s team was founded in 1933. Rugby at UChicago is a club sport, welcoming both veterans and new players to the game. |
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| A registered National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) Division II team, men’s rugby competes in the NCR Great Midwest Conference–South in the fall and the NCR 7s circuit in the spring. |
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| An illustration from Aliens, based on an idea from Joalda Morancy, AB’22. |
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| During the pandemic Joalda Morancy, AB’22, had more free time than usual. So they started sharing their obsessive research about various scientific topics on Twitter (now X), with obvious enthusiasm and plentiful exclamation points. |
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They wrote threads about time travel: “Every moment of our lives we are traveling through time, but how do we go about controlling where in the future or past we want to go?” |
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About wormholes: “One of the coolest concepts when it comes to high energy astrophysics, and I am here to tell you exactly why that is.” |
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Their most popular thread was about terraforming Mars: “You may have heard about this in movies, but how would we really do it?” |
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| A few months after Morancy began tweeting, an editor from Neon Squid, an imprint of Macmillan, asked if they would be interested in writing a children’s book. Aliens, aimed at readers ages 8 to 10, was published last fall, when Morancy was a fourth-year. |
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| Morancy, who graduated with a degree in astronomy and astrophysics, now works at Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos. An aerospace engineer, they test avionics for Blue Origin’s lunar lander program. |
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| Alumni memories: House lore |
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| A selection of House buttons on offer at Alumni Weekend in May. |
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| In the September issue, we asked readers to share their House memories. We did not expect to receive a message about a residence hall we had never heard of. |
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| I lived for two years in Boucher Hall (1971–73). It was at 53rd Street and, I believe, Ingleside Avenue, maybe half a block from the Chicago Osteopathic Hospital and across the street from a grade school. |
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| It had been built as a YMCA and looked like a Dickens workhouse. Dark red brick with some stone architecture flourishes, like a fortress built to last centuries. It must have been one of the largest off-campus dorms the University ever owned. It was so large that only one of the two wings was used. All the rooms were single occupancy (about seven feet by 12 feet), and there was a common kitchen in the basement where we could do our own cooking. Technically it was supposed to be for graduate students, but there was a group of undergrads, and those were the students I became friends with. |
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| It had its own basketball court and a swimming pool that was, I think, larger than the one in Ida Noyes, along with a piano room and a common TV lounge. Since it was a bit out of the way, no one from the University used those facilities. I swam a lot and never saw more than one person in the pool. Sadly, it was eventually torn down and modern townhomes built. |
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| I would love to have a button of it to wear proudly. It was a select group of us who had the privilege of living there.—Timothy Lyman, AB’74, SM’77 |
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| Chandelier in the ballroom of the former Shoreland Hotel (later Shoreland Hall). |
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| Alumni: Did you live in a residence hall that is no more—the Shoreland, Woodward, Broadview, Pierce, Foster, Green, or one we don’t even know about? |
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| Previously in College Review |
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| The College Review, edited by Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93, is brought to you by Alumni Relations and Development and the College. |
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| (3) Courtesy Neon Squid Books; Joalda Morancy, AB’22. |
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| (4) Jason Smith; {PD-US-expired} |
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