Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar, clearing the last of the city's most infamous slums. Razing was almost completed; masons poured concrete for a new $10 million Southern New England Telephone Co. building; apartments and stores were going up. It was all part of a 42-acre, $40 million public-private redevelopment project, sparked by Lee's successful wangle of $6,600,000 in U.S. grants and loans. Cost to the city: $1,700,000 in cash-plus $3,000 spent to exterminate some 50,000 rats before demolition could begin. Said Mayor Lee: "Redevelopment is not a luxury...
Still the Original Facts. From Wisconsin Meiklejohn moved on to San Francisco, where he started a pioneering adult-education program that soon had 300 men and women delving into the great philosophers. With World War II this project, too, melted away, and Alexander Meiklejohn finally retired to his modest house in Berkeley ("a professor's house, you know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search...
...responsibility to the nation by creating a branch college outside of Cambridge. This, they say, would avoid overcrowding the University's already expanding facilities in Cambridge, and at the same time bring the benefits of a Harvard education to a larger part of the country. Talk of such a project was circulating among administration and faculty members of on a very tentative basis this fall...
...program has certain peculiar aspects. The first is that the student is usually without supervision, once he has been accepted in the program. His field, usually History or History and Literature, recommends him for the program for a suggested study project not paralleled by courses. The Committee on Advanced Standing will usually accept the petition...
This leaves the student pretty much on his own, and if he has three time-consuming courses or a big outside activity, he may let his project slide. Many students have regretted the lack of direction in the program, but Harlon P. Hanson '46, director of Advanced Standing, is not too much distressed. He says, "Intellectual worth can be derived from a slackening of pace. Too many people here are tying their shoelaces while they...