Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girls already off-campus almost unanimously plan to stay where they are or will try to move to private apartments if they can. "I don't think a lot of people will go rushing back to the brick dorms. I know I won't," said an off-campus sophomore. Another groaned, "The college may be losing money, but I'd lose my sanity back in a dorm...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
Netsch used the cold, durable materials of the city-concrete, granite, hard-surfaced brick-to build his university. Mindful that 28,500 students will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...Columbia for his father's services, and the family moved to the Georgian-style brick house in Cambridge where his mother still lives. The house overflowed with books, and Arthur tried to devour them all. His father saw nothing unusual in that; he claimed to have read 598 books himself by the time he was 14. But others considered Arthur something of a prodigy. "You could picture him sitting on his father's knee enunciating truths about Populism," says Novelist Mary McCarthy, a longtime friend...
...drafted "because it was written for Stevenson. My cadence and timing are entirely different. It was a beautiful speech, though. I guess Arthur was a little sore." But once in Washington, the new President summoned Schlesinger to the White House, and the professor moved into an 18th century red brick house in stylish Georgetown...