Word: cruft
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DEAS, which comprises the undergraduate majors of Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Math, is currently housed in the Cruft-Pierce-Aiken complex of buildings located on the edge of the law school quad. Although many Harvard undergraduates never venture past the Science Center and hence have no idea what we're talking about, suffice it to say that these buildings are pretty near full...
Already, the attics of Pierce and Cruft have been converted to offices, and lab and classroom space in these buildings are often inadequate. Twenty million dollars of the donation will go to fund a new computer science/engineering building. Named Maxwell Dworkin after the donators' mothers, this new building will cost a total of $26 million and will be about 80,000 square feet. It is tentatively scheduled to replace the present Aiken building...