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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...
...clock: Professor Bloembergen gives Applied Physics 296 in Cruft 319; it's a refugee from the Gov. department called The Solid State. Then, of course, if you don't know why Tom Dooley should hang down his head, or what you get for loading sixteen tons, or what's on top of Old Smoky, English 195, Folksong and Balladry, in Emerson A, is just the thing. And if English thought from Burke to Mill happens to be the lone weak spot in your arsenal of knowledge, take History 143 with assistant professor Graubard in Harvard...
...first jobs with the University was as an assistant to the director of the new Cruft Laboratory in connection with materials for instruction and research...
...involved with the production of experimental vacuum tubes in Cruft and the pre-radar training courses held there during the Second World War. When the Lyman Laboratory was completed in 1931, he was appointed supervisor of the stockroom...
...linking the laboratories, the bridge provides a continuous indoors connection running through Jefferson, Lyman, Cruft, and Pierce Halls. It puts the Departments of Physics and Applied Sciences, and the Graduate School of Engineering almost entirely under one roof...