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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flexible & Convenient. Hoping to cash in on the demand, several companies have already started building the new prefab schools. In Hamilton, Mass., Stoner Associates of Boston has just completed a two-classroom addition to the Manasseh Cutler School. It is built of aluminum, glass, steel and Fiberglas, is complete with heating, plumbing, TV and furnishings. Cost: $22,500 per classroom. Another Boston firm, Structo Schools Corp., is planning to build modified prefabs, rent them to communities that have reached their bonded-debt limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prefab School Days | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Ohio University, in the relaxed southern Ohio town of Athens (pop. 9,000), the current saying is: "A Yaleman founded the school, but a Harvardman put it on its feet." The Yaleman was Manasseh Cutler, who helped start the university in 1804 as the nation's first land-grant college. The Harvardman: 54-year-old John Calhoun Baker, Ohio's president since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvardmcm on the Hocking | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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