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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...
Present conditions at the School of education are "hopelessly inefficient," Keppel said. Since 1950, the School's total space facilities have increased by per cent as against a faculty-student rise of 400 per cent. "It's not so much the condition of the buildings we're concerned about, it's the space--we call it education by compression,'" he said...
...Library space, faculty office space, and classroom facilities are the School's shrieking needs," noted Keppel. Pointing to the ceiling of his office in Lawrence Hall, he said, "see those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library upstairs because we were told second floor would cave...
...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...