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P^WITH STA TRAVEL STUDENTS CAN AFFORD TO SEE IT ALL The Walkway Sheffield Building, Imperial College ABTA I ATA m WHEREVER YOU'RE BOUND, WE'RE BOUND TO HAVE BEEN.STA TRAVEL Felix 1000th Edition Contents That Was The World That Was 4 A review of some of the more interesting news items to appear in Felix since 1949. A Brief History Of Imperial College 10 A guide to the history of the buildings around Imperial College. A Day In The Life Of Imperial College 14 Photographs showing some of the events of a typical College day. How The Huxley Building Got Its Name... 20 The people behind the names of some of the buildings around College. Looking Back Over 80 Years Of Clubs And Societies 22 The changing shape of the clubs and societies of Imperial College Union. Changing Careers of Graduates 24 The changes in the destinations of university graduates over the last 40 years. A Week In The Life Of Felix 26 Photographs showing what goes into producing an issue of Felix. A Glimpse Into The Future 28 Some of the changes we can expect to Imperial College and the surrounding area. Felix Icons from the past 31 How the Felix logo has changed since it began on 9th December 1949. Felix 1000th Edition A Time of Change and Opportunity Felix was born in an era that Consort statue to discolour the there and I wanted a smoke, so I saw the first green shoots of light. Several sets of antlers had jumped." 1949 student rebellion and it very also been removed from stuffed February 1956 ended with quickly showed that it was not animal heads on the walls of a the NUS organising a house to going to be left out of the dining hall and replaced with house collection to raise proceedings. bicycle handlebars. The club £30,000 for a new student hostel Anarchy reigned in the very was renamed '28V2' and a funeral in London. Issue 87 reported the first issue (9th December 1949) was held in Silwood Park. impending demolition of the with a scathing attack on the In the annual Morphy Day Imperial Institute to make way police for breaking up students' boat race competitions in for the expansion of College. Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. November, the Royal College of Internationally, the Suez Crisis The police hosed both the Science won the Lowry Cup for reached its conclusion towards bonfire and the assembled the first time since 1948. the end of the year. students and in the ensuing Issue 60 (March 1954) Weeks Hall was paid for by chaos they arrested 16 people. congratulated students on the Vickers Ltd in March 1957 at a Readers were asked to "dig statistic that more debaggings cost of £150,000. The Jubilee of Imperial College's Charter was celebrated by a visit from the Queen Mother on 28th May. The Wolfenden Report was published on 4th September, recommending the legalisation of homosexual acts between • 1949 adults in private. The Jodrell Britain recognises Israel • Jan 29 Bank radio telescope came into Parliament Act passed - • Nov 29 operation on 11th October. First issue of Felix • Dec 9 The future of the Queen's • 1950 Tower, part of the soon-to-be Britain recognises China • Jan 9 demolished Imperial Institute, • 1951 was under speculation at the RSM centenary celebration • Oct start of 1958. An ex-Imperial First British atom bomb tests • Oct 3 College geologist, Dr John Zebra crossings introduced - • Oct 31 The RCS crew won the Lowry Cup on Morphy Day, 1953 Stephenson, reached the South • 1952 Pole with the Commonwealth King George VI dies - • Feb 6 deep" to help pay their fines. (removal of someone's trousers) Trans-Antarctic expedition in NUS disaffiliates from IUS • Nov In the outside world, the per person per hour took place January. Christopher Cockerell's • 1953 British Government officially in the previous week than ever newly-invented hovercraft was ULU debate on abortion - Feb 6 recognised the Communist state before. On 6th May, Dr Roger patented on 23rd May. Mt Everest conquered - • May 29 of China (9th January 1950) and Bannister ran the first sub-four Controversy surrounded Coronation of Elizabeth II - Jun 2 Foreign Office officials Guy minute mile at the Iffley Road Imperial College's arts maga- 1954 Burgess and Donald Maclean track in Oxford. zine Phoenix in February 1959. Four minute mile achieved - • May 6 defected to Russia (May 1951). On 3rd March 1955, the Its editor, David Irving, was Food rationing ends - Jul 2 The Suez Crisis began to Queen Mother was elected dismissed by the Students 1955 develop as British/Egyptian Chancellor of the University of Union at a packed Union Piltdown Man hoax confirmed - Jan 21 relations worsened. London. Frank Irving and Lome Meeting for "his unwillingness QM elected Chancellor - Mar 3 The National Union of Welch of the Imperial College to cooperate with the Board of 1st 2-seater cross-channei glide - • May 14 Students (NUS) removed itself Gliding Club made the first Directors". He was later First commercial TV broadcast - • Sep 22 from the International Union of two-seater glider flight across appointed editor of the 1956 Students in November 1952 the English Channel on 14th Carnival Times, a rag maga- NUS organise hostel collection - Feb after failure to confirm it would May, landing in Belgium after a zine organised by ULU. Last British troops leave Suez - Jun 13 not have to be involved in the flight of 250 miles. The Haldane Library was 1957 political side of the organisation. The first commercial televi- officially opened at 13 Princes First Premium Bond prizes - • Jun 1 A University of London sion broadcast took place on Gardens on 8th May. A Union Weeks Hall paid for by Vickers - Mar debate on 6th February 1953 22nd September, prompting the Meeting in December voted to IC Charter Jubilee - May recommended the legalisation BBC into scheduling the death boycott all goods from the Wolfenden Report published - Sep 4 of abortion. This was also the of Grace Archer in 'The Union of South Africa. The first 1958 year when Derek Bentley was Archers' radio serial as a hovercraft Channel crossing Ex-IC geologist reaches S. Pole - Jan hanged, despite 200 MPs plead- counter-attraction. took place on 25th July. Post The hovercraft is patented - May 23 ing for a reprieve. A second year Physics codes were used for the first 1959 July saw the death of the student jumped from the second time in Norwich on 3rd Irving dismissed from Phoenix - Feb infamous '29 Club', a group of floor of the Royal College of October. On 6th November, Haldane Library opened - May 8 practical jokers responsible for Science on 9th December. He two motorists were killed in an Post codes used for first time - Oct 3 putting coloured paper all over announced: "A friend of mine accident on the Ml, which Two killed on new Ml - Nov 6 the lamps in front of the Prince was handing out fags down opened earlier that week. Felix 1000th Edition That Was The World That Was The 1960s was a decade of indecision over Imperial College's relationship with the 1960- National Union of Students (NUS). After cutting its ties with the national body in 1948, 1967 Imperial College Union (ICU) again voted not to re-affiliate. The decision was made on a majority of seven votes at a Union Meeting on 3rd May 1960. That summer, the Anderson report on student funding rec- ommended the abolition of State Scholarships. The new Physics block was opened on 20th October by Sir John Cockroft. The Sports Centre under construction in 1967 This was the same day that the trial of Penguin Books (for pub- Act came into force on lst The Rag Carnival Board lishing DH Lawrence's Lady August, raising the minimum were devastated in February by Chatterley's Lover) began. The prison age to 17. The Great the news that Chelsea police company was acquitted of an Train Robbery took place on 8th would not allow street collec- obscenity charge on 2nd August. Approximately £2.5 tions during the Carnival in 1960 November. million was stolen from the May. An appeal to reverse the Oct 20 - • Lady Chatterley trial begins 9th April 1961 saw the Cross Glasgow to London mail train. decision was rejected by the Oct20 -New Physics block opened Country Club complete a Technology became a major Home Office, but late in April Dec 31 - National Service abolished Land's End to John O'Groats focus of coverage in 1964 as the police finally agreed to 1961 relay in 99 hours 14 minutes. BBC2 began transmission on allow collections. Apr 9 "ICXC Club finish country relay Britain's first satellite, Ariel, 16th April and it was announced Work on isolating the Sep 12- "Bertrand Russell jailed at 89 was launched from Cape on 6th May that Imperial Queen's Tower as a free stand- 1962 Canaveral in America on 26th College was being given an ing campanile began on 14th Apr26 - -Britain's first satellite launch April 1962. Felix began to be IBM 7090 computer. The first March. Jun -Felix starts internal printing printed internally in June. This British space flight (of the 'Blue Controversy erupted in Oct 22- - Imperial Institute Rd closed was in order to halve the cost of Streak' rocket) took place on November when the Royal Nov 24- -First broadcast of TW3 printing - Felix was losing £250 5th June. In November, the College of Science Union Dec30 -Worst snowstorms since 1881 a year at the time.

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