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		Wonder Boys: 1923 It was a hard-knock life. Graduations and withdrawals had taken their toll on the Northeastern baseball squad. With only four regulars returning, coach Madison Jeffrey was forced to rebuild his team almost entirely from scratch. Indoor practices had to be held at the Tufts cage in Medford, an hour away from Huntington Avenue. Games and outdoor practices entailed venturing to the other side of the tracks, literally—to the Walpole Street Grounds near Columbus Avenue. Years later, team manager Don Moody, E’23 (standing, far right), recalled that field’s poor condition made it rough to play on. You’d expect more for a baseball team on the campus that boasted the site of the first World Series, in 1903. Despite the odds, the Huskies took six games that spring, up from four the previous year. Perhaps Northeastern’s new regulation varsity letter motivated the respectable .500 season. Student opinion is often divided on which is more prized: an A earned in the classroom or an N on the field. Speaking of aspirations, NU acquired various United Drug buildings—including the structure shown here, now known as Columbus Place, home to Northeastern University Alumni Magazine—in 1961. That was the year President Asa S. Knowles kicked off his Diamond Anniversary Development Program to expand the university’s physical plant. Truly grounds for celebration.