Word: larsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these items, considerable as they are, by no means exhaust the list of needs and of efforts now being made by the University to meet them. I pointed out in my report last year that even with the acquisition of Longfellow and Larsen Halls the space requirements of the Graduate School of Education had not been met. Most pressing is the want of a library, because the limited space at present available for library purposes in the basement of Longfellow Hall is shockingly inadequate for the large and vital school for education we have now created here. Plans...
...small office in Larsen Hall, cluttered with graphs, tapes and electronic equipment, H. Leslie Cramer seems more the mad scientist than the Ed School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...
...does the hall. Designed by the Texas firm of Caudill Rowlett Scott, architects for Harvard's Roy Edward Larsen Hall (TIME, Jan. 21) and the A.I.A. Award-winning Brazos County Courthouse in Texas, it stands foursquare with the city grid on the exterior, turns curvy inside to encompass a seashell-shaped auditorium. Says William Caudill: "There were 61 people involved with the job and they worked 13¾ man-years." To make sure that the acoustics would prove a ringing success, the ceiling is composed of 870 acoustical "lenses" that can be raised or lowered to tune the hall...
...cooler because two more buildings now have air-conditioned classes--Larsen Hall and Emerson. There are only a few classes left that are not air-conditioned, according to Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Summer School...
Dean Ebert of the Med School approves the second-year students' independent study program; five of the students add they want to be exempted from some exams, too. The Faculty Club announces a $350,000 expansion. The Ed School's Roy E. Larsen Hall is dedicated. "Now that they mention it," says the architect, "it does look something like a castle...