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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economist Sumner Slichter wrote that "in the opinion of many persons" millions (perhaps 8,000,000) would find no jobs in an economy which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days...
Informed Alarm. Last week, running the college with casual, kindly autocracy, waving to undergraduates as he stomped about the campus, Carleton's President Laurence McKinley Gould went about the business of finding the money. His method: to bedevil the rich with reports of the U.S.'s conspicuous complacency-much as Economist Thorstein Veblen (Carleton '80) once hounded them with charges of "conspicuous consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor...
...Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke Ellington's band was hired, installed in the only building on campus big enough to hold both musicians and students. After a less-than-frantic first set, the Duke apologized: "The boys never played a chapel before. They're a little tense...
...design, pointed out that the cheapest schools run up the highest maintenance costs. The next year he won his first round. M.I.T. educated Architect William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor-to-ceiling school windows, protected by an 8-ft. overhang to keep sun from desks. But what wowed the school board was that the building came in $40,000 under the estimate. "When they...
...Venice Junior High School, a $548,213 building for 450 pupils, an uncompromisingly modular steel, concrete and glass campus plan that Architects John Crowell of Sarasota, 43, and Mark Hampton of Tampa, 35, thought would best adjust to the changing demands of function. Colored panels and waffle-grid roof lighten the heavy industrial look...