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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practically all of the University's engineering buildings and laboratories were given over to government use during the war, and therefore after the Radio School's demobilization had been completed, the extensive remodelling process for the reorganized Harvard Engineering School were begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system...
Other buildings, formerly at the disposal of the government and now returned to the Engineering School, are the Cruft Wireless Laboratory, and the Rotch Building, the latter of which is given up almost entirely to the Division of Mining at the present time...
Other innovations planned by the Engineering School for the near future include an aeronautical laboratory, since the school already has among its equipment a number of airplane motors recently purchased from the United States Government. This step, however, will not be taken until at least another year...
Previous to the speeches entertainment was furnished by Professor P. D. Rice of the Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word, and Mr. C. E. Kany 3G., concert pianist. Prof. Rice gave an interpretative and sympathetic rendering of Sir James Barry's one-act comedy "The New World...
Dean Donham on Business School...