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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also praised a suggestion of one Master that cubicles be built in the basement for typewriters and study purposes, probably on the order of the typing rooms in Lamont...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: University to Finance Additions for Houses | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

...ceilinged, fluorescent-lit basement room in Sever Hall stands a row of machines which may someday supply such efficiency. They are updated models, constructed by Professor Skinner, of the teaching machines devised in the '20's by the inventor Sidney L. Pressey. The teaching machines facilitate automatic testing of information and intelligence...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

When Mrs. Pusey moved to Cambridge, she gave up her vacations at the "clear, cold, and beautiful" lake near the Woodward home in Iowa, and now spends summers with her family in Mt. Desert, Maine, enjoying mountain climbing and sailing with friends. An eight foot pram, built in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, and a battered kayak which was given to Nathan, Jr., are the only family-owned boats...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The President's Lady | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...teacher. Last week, after two months of teaching, Allen began his series. His school: Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High, which became the city's most publicized last winter, after a month of hoodlum invasions, assaults and an alleged knife-point rape in a school basement ended in the suicide of Principal George Goldfarb (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undercover Teacher | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Theatre East (Sixtieth Street near Third Avenue) is a cramped basement whose very slightly claustrophobic atmosphere reinforces the mood of the play, which is given in three-sided arena style with the audience close upon it. The arena arrangement strengthens the claustrophobic feeling, and Jack Youngerman's stark set does nothing to dissipate...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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