They called it a "typewriter"

Before PCs, laptops, tablets and all that, before Word or Google Docs, there was another way of creating documents, the typewriter! Typewritten documents first appear in the archival record of the college in the 1890s, but many records were still handwritten up to the WWI era. The typewriter shown here was discovered in the library store room, and is now in the archives. It is a manual typewriter, a Royal office model of mid 1960s vintage. In the 1970s manual typewriters became displaced by electrics, and they in their turn were replaced by PCs beginning in the early 1990s.

For decades though, when you needed to type up a paper, a memo, a letter or other document, this was what you used!

Our School Dog!

To start off the centennial year from the Stylus here is something from a 1914 piece by a campus school student:

Dorm Room, December 1967

A large collection of negatives was recently discovered on campus, work of the campus photographer in the late '60s. One fascinating set of negatives were from a photo shoot of dorm life in December 1967. It's probably been a long time for most readers since they played a record like the girl is doing on the left!