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For the first time in its more than fifty years
of existence, enrollment at Washington became
too large to be contained in one building. Begin–
ning in September, over two hundred and fifty
semester three students boarded a bus which drove
them to additional class rooms in a converted
elementary school building, formerly known as
the Sixty-Eighth Street School. Here they at–
tended c1asses in biology, English, and mathe–
matics before returning to the main building at
noon. At this time, another group of approxi–
mately two hundred semester three students, who
had spent the morning in the main building, were
waiting to be taken to the West Campus (as it
was called ) for afternoon sessions in these same
subjects.
The apparent ease with which this transfer
was accomplished
is
a tribute
to
these students
as wel1 as to their teachers and administrators. In
fact, most commuting students seemed
to
regard
this as a unique experience, providing an in–
teresting break in their day's routine.
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