Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the unfamiliar waters ahead. Tacking unskillfully along the North Cambridge car line, Vag's frail cockleshell almost at once encounters a large white island; whose towering stone cliffs rise perpendicular from the water's edge. San Domingo, perhaps? No, young Columbus, it is on the map as Littauer Center. It is a new island in these parts. It is very long and solid and important-looking. It will be a wonderful place to land for an excursion sometime soon when the hand of man has more fully nurtured its interior. But ahoy! Another smaller island slips over the horizon...
Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot, architects for the new Littauer School of Public Administration, besides having a remarkably metrical name, are careful workmen. For weeks as the great gray structure reared itself, members of the Philips Brooks House staff across the street wondered why battalions of men periodically scrubbed all its stone surface...
...work has been commenced. The idealistic aspiration of the two founders have for the first time taken concrete form. It will, however, be the newspapers of the future and the public officials of the future who will either condemn or affirm the convictions of Mrs. Nieman and Mr. Littauer. Meanwhile the responsibility and initiative rests squarely on the shoulders of the nine and thirteen...
...anonymity exists because the number of people involved is small; perhaps it is due to the fact that neither of the groups has yet had time to produce any outstanding contributions to their particular field. For the nine new Nieman Fellows and the thirteen new graduate students of the Littauer School of Public Administration, who compose what are probably this University's smallest departments, have barely considered the work which lies ahead of them. It will be a year, possibly many years, before any accurate estimation of the worth of these latest Harvard educational innovations can be made...
...nearing completion is the new Hemenway Gymnasium on Massachusetts avenue near the Law School. Built to replace the old Hemenway Gymnasium, which was a Harvard landmark from 1878 until its removal last year to make room for the Littauer Center, the new structure will contain squash courts and other exercise facilities...