Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kresge Hall will contain the school's dining hall, but these men said that the present temporary dining hall could continue to be used if the government felt the emergency were so great that universities should sharply cut all their construction. Harvard is also planning three other classroom and laboratory buildings...
Owen Stratton, associate professor of political science, has been in charge of the program since 1947. He feels that without such training, classroom learning is nothing more than "empty verbalism...
...growing atmosphere of restricted thought and expression was found to be mostly self-censorship which took the forms of: 1. A reluctance to speak out on controversial issues in and out of class; 2. A reluctance to handle currently unpopular concepts even in classroom work where they may be part of the study program; 3. An unwillingness to join student political clubs; 4. Neglect of humanitarian causes because they may be suspect in the minds of politically unsophisticated officials...
John G. McLean, associate professor of Business Administration, says that the classroom is "the first of its kind, so far as we know...
...design represents a substantial departure from the conventional classroom layout. For that reason, it was deemed prudent to construct a mock-up room for experimental purposes. On the basis of experience in the test room, it should be possible to make substantial improvements in the design before the final plans for Aldrich Hall are completed...