Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the School, the funds may go into the construction of a 85,000 cu. ft. skyscraper of the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Sts. The structure would absorb the entire School, which is now scattered all entire Cambridge in six run-down houses. Keppel stressed that the proposed building is only one alternative: "there isn't too much elbow room in that area of future expansion. We may have to something else...
School administrators have not done as much as they could in the fields of integration, scientific progress, and cultural advance, Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said last night at Fogg Museum...
...first annual Alfred D. Simpson Lecture, Keppel charged that "This nation has turned over to the judiciary the power of decision on policies of race relations and has established such bodies as the National Science Foundation to take initiative on reforms in education made necessary by scientific developments. . . . Basic educational decisions are being made by lawyers and scientists, not by the school administrators...
...Keppel advocated expansion of research and development in education. "An enterprise of $15 billion a year is now conducted with a bare fraction of one per cent devoted to research and development," he said...
...Keppel was a member of the Ashby Commission, an international group that has proposed a Loan Educational Aid Program for American teachers in Nigeria. LEAP, like the Harvard Youth Service program, will not find itself in competition with the State Department, Keppel said...