Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is where the University's new modernistic structures differ from the equally modern dormitories built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently. The M.I.T. building is one large unit, since Tech's construction site was much smaller than that of the Graduate Center...
...race with M.I.T. and the Union Boat Club is scheduled for about three weeks from today. No ex-varsity men from either of the schools, however, will row in the crews. Tech was the only beat which beat the Crimson last year, after losing to the Harvard eight in two earlier races...
...boats which will be sailed include Stars, International 14's, and dinghies. Yale is the defending champion, but Tech and Coast Guard are supposed to have the strongest teams...
...core to which the Tech GE program will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. The culture studies usually involve guest lecturers. Margaret Mead, for example, aided a study of south sea civilization. This sort of work goes on for two years; then the student can specialize for one and a half years after which he spends a last half year in synthesizing what he has absorbed...
Burchard also noted that the introduction of GE in earnest at M.I.T. this year apparently was popular with students of superior abilities. Less zealous or competent students tended to think of the Tech GE program as something that was chewing up their time while they were trying to become engineers...