Word: remodelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago John Friedlein and William Miller, who teach chemistry and physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond...
Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining hall, besides extending the House with the new Leverett "Towers." It seems only just for the Administration to pay similar attention to the perhaps less pressing, but nevertheless important lacunae in the physical plants of other Houses...
...jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined up against Speaker Sam Rayburn and the Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut Wood, the n 2-year-old Gothic Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Conn. (TIME, Oct. 21), designed by igth century Architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It became a hot political issue in last...
...five years: $14 million for graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships and student loans; $10 million for faculty pay raises; $6,447,000 for a new geology building, geology teaching and research ; $6,000,000 for twelve new professorships; $3,931,000 to build a new school of art and architecture, remodel the existing school; $1,000,000 for the Yale University Press...
...money from its Ford Foundation grant to sponsor an art contest, John B. Fox '59, chairman of the House Art Committee, said yesterday. The House has already set aside some of its Ford funds for art classes with a professional artist. Money from the University will be used to remodel a studio in the House...