Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reliable sources at Smithsonian indicated that the project on Observatory Hill will be financed by the Program for Harvard College. The building will remain the property of the University, and will be rented completely or in part to Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress...
Preliminary plans call for a 40,000 square foot building near the Harvard College Observatory. In addition to complete office and laboratory space, the project would house a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer, a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
...committee composed of local representatives has no voice in policy matters and is therefore powerless, Cook explained. He doubted that the three members added to the project's governing body represented a sufficient broadening of scope...
Words & Works. Sponsored by the city, the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the project is no quick educational cureall. The hope is to try to balance the dragging weight of the children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn...
...project's ultimate goal is to find college candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to George Washington in 1957. Without the experiment's hand-tailored education, perhaps five could have expected to pass...