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Sert--a Catalan who left Spain when the Loyalists were defeated in the Spanish Civil War--is sensitive to the criticism directed at the Science Center and his two other Harvard buildings, Holyoke Center and the Peabody Terrace married student dormitories. "You can stick to the old styles, or make...
On the theory that frustration impedes learning, educators use teaching machines designed to prevent all errors and reward all successes. Last week Columbia University Psychologist Herbert Terrace asserted that the theory is wrong; his experiments with pigeons demonstrate that it is not frustration but a complete lack of it that...
In support of his view, Terrace cites the reactions of 200 pigeons, which were taught to distinguish red from green; they were rewarded with food when they pecked in response to a red light, but food was withheld when they pecked at the sight of green. Half got food every...
From 1928 to 1968 Harvard paid annual sums in lieu of taxes under successive 20-year agreements with the City. Subsequent acquisitions of land and buildings like Peabody Terrace were covered by separate arrangements. Since 1968, the City and Harvard have negotiated on a year-to-year basis.
Harvard is giving the City of Cambridge $100,000 as well as architectural assistance to renovate the Corporal Burns Playground which the University damaged during the construction of Peabody Terrace and Mather House.