Word: vanserg
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...table in the middle of another hall lies a pile of mail, all addressed to Vanserg Hall. The letters are earmarked for "Mining and Metallurgy Lab." "Project for Kibbutz Studies," and assorted economists, among others...
...VANSERG HALL was hastily built in 1943 by the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development as a radar laboratory. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, which under one name or another designed all the River Houses, departed from the neo-Georgian elegance that characterized their earlier work for Harvard and put together a plain three-story structure with a flat roof and red shingles...
Three years later, when the war was over. Harvard made this homely compound an unlikely addition to its collection of historic and innovative buildings. Harvard students have been hiking to Vanserg (and getting lost on the way) ever since...
...Canada, the British Film Institute, CalArts, or an Eastern European studio probably acknowledge a Harvard Vis Stud alum in the credits. Last weekend's New Personal Animation Part I included a Harvard senior thesis (Eggs. by Ruth Hays), a ten-foot set built in one of the studios in Vanserg for Asparagus, Susan Pitt, and three short diary films by Susan Rubin, who seems to be the guardian angel of the animators at work in the basement in Carpenter...
...unlike the Harvard athlete, the Harvard student must venture forth from the dry confines of his room rain or shine. And as he makes his way to class--when it rains class is undoubtedly in Vanserg--he turns Cambridge into an arena for the galoshes Olympics of peculiar sports...