Word: cruft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naval Radio School, which had started with a small group of University scientists in the Cruft Laboratory, had expanded by the fall of 1918 to 6300 students occupying Memorial Hall, Pierce Hall, Hemenway Gym and specially built barracks on the Cambridge Common. By spring 1919, however, the school was on its way to Chicago...
...television camera transmitted the pictures on the screen from the Cruft Hall computer room to the classroom in Pierce Hall and a loudspeaker hookup enabled students to hear Lewis' voice. After the lecture, students asked questions which Lewis could hear in Cruft, and he answered them...
There was a vast amount of construction in the years 1912-1914. Widener Library ways built and provided a place for the bulk of the university's collection, dispensing with the scattered departmental libraries that had existed previously. Coolidge, Gibbs and Cruft Libraries were built to house the Physics and Chemistry Departments. Gore and Standish halls--now part of Winthrop House--sprung up along the river housing freshmen. The MTA was completed in 1912 and was welcomed by undergrads because it made travel to Boston easier. The Larz Anderson Bridge, completed in 1913, made it much easier...