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Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, showed an overflow crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall last night a glimpse of a future in which "all routine activities could be done by devices." Finding a role for education, he said, is a major challenge to a society with the capicity to provide the routine...
Although the Administration has recognized the problem and is planning a tenth House to relieve the pressure, no accomodations have been provided for the overflow during the transitional period before the tenth House is ready for occupation. The obvious solution is to permit more students to live off-campus...
...construct large sewers parallel to the banks of the Charles intercepting all the old local sewers that once flowed directly into the river. This ended the major source of pollution. But these same local sewers also carried storm water and during heavy storms the interceptors were made to overflow into the Charles, to avoid their backing up and clogging local systems. Essentially, this was the method used until this year...
Meanwhile, at an overflow undergraduate meeting, some 600 students agreed to take common action, but decided to meet next week to determine what that action wou'd be. After a two-hour open meeting, dominated by a whirring CBS television camera, the undergraduates shouted down a resolution which declared that using grades to determine eligibility for the draft was incompatible with "what the university is and represents." When news of the graduate students' anti-war petition was announced, the undergraduates broke into uproarious cheers...
...Charles River Dam located in Science Park, Boston was built in 1910 to keep salt water out of the river. Sewers, further up stream, were designed to overflow into the river during peak periods. If the river were primarily a fresh water river the sewage could be absorbed, and treated "naturally" without any noticeable odor, Albitson pointed...