Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actually Tech's connection with non-scientific study dates to its origin, but not since the 1930's and the presidency of Karl Compton did M.I.T.'s courtship with higher non-scientific learning begin in earnest...
...Tech, following the example of Harvard and other leaders in general education, is this year pushing General Education to a point where it will occupy a little more than 25 percent of the time a student puts in at his courses during four years of M.I.T...
Before Compton took over, Tech was purely a teaching organization, rather than an institution which produced creative an institution which produced creative scholarship. The first departments Compton built up to "excellent" status were the Physics, Chemistry, Quantitive Biology, and Mathematics divisions. It was through its emphasis on these subjects that Teach developed its reputation as an engineer assembly line...
After the war the Tech administration took a long look west on Massachusetts Avenue, then took a look at itself and started to plan the core of a new humanities program. Like Harvard and its G.E. Committee, M.I.T. was worried about what specialization would do to the thinking processes of twentieth-country...
Part of the reason for the change, says the Record, is that modern architecture is cheaper. Georgia Tech estimates that it has saved at least 25% on its new Textile Engineering Building, with mill rooms, classrooms, laboratories and a 300-seat auditorium, all enclosed in a structure as simple as a box. Dean Joseph Hudnut of Harvard's Faculty of Design has estimated that Harvard's new Graduate Center will cost only $3,500 per pupil, as opposed to the $12,500 in previous dormitories...