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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
I had to pop around to MUN after work today and took a few pictures - heavily censored - of the ugliest university in North America. May I present the tolerable bits... though I've included some hints of what the rest looks like. 
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(It was a necessity - back then, things were still old school. The vast majority of our war dead were from St. John's, and the vast majority of them were at least working class. If that sounds odd as it was the lowest class elsewhere, we did have a large, lower class. Merchants, even the Prime Minister's family, were especially hard hit because it was considered proper for the upper class to volunteer. As our royal regiment was devastated, we lost our intellectual class. The university was intended to remedy that).
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I commend you on your photographic bravery. I also understand what you mean by heavily censored. It's all basically bad architecture, but better than most industrial parks.
Incidentally the name is from the old Memorial College, 1926, intended to honour WW I, but still with the same meaning of course.
Just wondering why you said the vast majority of Newfoundland war dead were from St. John's; I think it was closer to being proportional at a time when St. John's was a much smaller percentage of the total population. I think most of the war dead came from elsewhere. Recruitment would have been more accessible to city residents however.
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