Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country whose language they teach. Gradually, students move up from sounds to basic grammar to sentences to conversation and writing. To supplement class work, they have textbooks written by Monterey's 381-man faculty, individual tape recorders, closed-circuit television films in the institute's elaborate language lab...
Valuable as liquid hydrogen is in the lab, though, the men who use it can never forget its dangerous characteristics. The trouble is, it really does not want to be a liquid. Forced into a fluid state by powerful refrigeration machines, it must be sealed in a double-walled vacuum container and kept constantly below its boiling point (-423° F.) to control vaporization. As a liquid, it is not readily flammable. It is when it vaporizes and comes in contact with oxygen that hydrogen becomes explosive. Which makes for a vicious problem: how to let off the inevitable vapors...
...task is harder than the average department's, for language teaching has been revolutionized within the last decade; few section men can make use of the techniques that were used to teach them languages back in high school. The translation since then has given way to the language lab, the memorized passage to the audio-visual...
...until 1959 that Boylston Hall was renovated and turned over to the language departments. The latest in laboratory methods was installed, including 30 listening booths and a console that can play six separate programs simultaneously, and monitor any or all booths at once. A huge library of tapes, a lab director and assistant, and six employees completed the laboratory...
...mostly during their first semester the high school heroes spent their time adjusting back down to a freshman role, chuckling at Audio Lab ads in a Yale Daily News parody, and watching a new U.S. President who, like themselves, had a Harvard class after his name...