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Farewell to Ajax, Cover

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Farewell to Ajax - University Graduate University of Toronto April 1949 (Caption under picture: Varsity Division Created for Ex Servicemen Closes on May 31st.) "YOU know," the professor said, as the bus sped smoothly along the highway through pleasant, rolling country, "I'm going to miss all this I really got attached to the place, coming out every day—it only takes an hour. It won't be the same in the city. Classes there are more impersonal, more formal. Yes, it'll be quite a jolt going back to the city." The professor was talking about the University of Toronto Ajax Division which closes at the end of May. "We've had our own life here," the second year engineer said. "It's been a good life, too. I'm all for residences like these. There's always one bright guy in the house it you get stuck on a problem and you can talk over ideas so simply. The place has a kind of air of its own. This has really been home to all of us and we'll sure miss it." The young engineer, too, was talking about Ajax. Most of the 5036 engi-neers who studied at Ajax during the four terms from 1946 to 1949 would agree with him. In 1945, when the University completed arrangements to take over part of the grounds and buildings used by Defense Industries Limited, 25 miles east of Toronto, as an auxiliary unit of Varsity, no one knew just how the project would work out. The biggest

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