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...there a representative from Christ Church here," asked Babcock. "Yes," a lady answered, "and I'm not happy." "Do you think," her companion demanded, "that the Ed School is really proud of this building?" Babcock smiled and gestured toward the completely glassed-in IBM complex. "Progress," he said, smiling...
...group then picked its way down a windowless staircase, over workmen and plaster, and into the sunlight of the first floor. "My," a Reunioner whispered, "I hope the air conditioning never goes off." Babcock was showing them the TV studio, the IBM room, and the teaching machine room when the bells from neighboring Christ Church, an old grey building with windows, rang...
There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...
Once on the top floor Babcock demonstrated the marvels of modernization. "The lighting is all centrally controlled," he said. "You just dial a light. It's like dialing a prayer...
...hope," the priest said, "there's lighting control in all the rooms." "No," Babcock answered, "just in the halls." "And no window," a lady in a flowered hat said, shaking her head. "How do you like this view," Babcock asked, after descending a few floors. "As you can see," he said, gesturing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle below, "this is only the start of the School." I wouldn't be surprised if the School had the whole quadrangle some day--although that's just a guess." A few members of Radcliffe's 50th Reunion class flinched...