Word: unit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there has been no official recognition of the rumor that future Freshman classes of Harvard College will be lodged in the Yard, every indication points to an uprooting of the ties which now bind the first year unit to the dormitories fronting the Charles and a transplanting of the entire Freshman group in the Yard. Such a step, radical as it may seem to those who have come to accept the present distribution of classes as an inevitable law, would only be a corollary to the policy of dividing Harvard College into six Houses, the occupants of which will...
...circulation of members of the first year class among the small Yard buildings would parallel the contacts established between McKinlock, Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls. Besides while the Yard would only hold the same number the Freshman Halls accommodate, it would possess the distinction of being a complete unit, those members of other classes who now mingle with the Seniors being excluded...
...effect of gravity. Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...
...Riemann metric subdivides time, space, undulations, tensions and the other simplest phenomena of the world. By multiplying that unit as though it were (crudely) pounds, gives the force of gravity between, say, the earth and the man or egg falling from the airplane. Gravity is thus not unique as Newton believed. It is a part of the world's pervasive unity. Again Dr. Einstein's suspicion brought him to perception. This...
...long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings and their relation to each other might be employed...