Word: labs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold before them. At the front of the room, tape recorders whirl; an instructor watches them and occasionally twists dials to discover how his proteges are fairing in their strange new world of a foreign tongue. The entire scene contrasts with the grim, grey exterior of the building; the lab itself is bright, cheering, and more like 1984 than 1859. And, at last, language teaching at the College has caught up with the twentieth century...
Piling Up the Evidence. In Tokyo, police raided their own photo lab at headquarters, found stacks of erotic pictures that other cops had confiscated, reproduced, and sold in sets of five and ten to eager customers...
...other action, Marshall R. Pihl, Jr. '60, explained the operation of HDC's newly instituted lighting and set construction "lab," which begins Thursday at 3 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre. "We're going to approach the problem as though we had very limited equipment at our disposal," Pihl said...
What emerged this summer was an airy, two-floor wing on the regular building with a score of stunning innovations. The chemistry lab has diamond-shaped worktables with ample drawer space and plentiful balances. The physics lab ceiling has hooks and pulleys at 3-ft. intervals for all manner of gravity and pendulum experiments. An electronic control board supplies any kind of electricity to every lab table. This year St. Charles will begin teaching the new M.I.T. physics course. The goal is that at least 10% of the students will have had two years of college work by the time...
Many J.P.L. experiments seem unspectacular. One lab is studying the behavior of solid fuels that will burn at the low pressure that rockets encounter at the outer fringes of the atmosphere. A huddle of men in blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a concrete wall. Reflected in the mirror is a 2-ft. object like an outsized bug bomb. For a few noisy seconds, a blue flame spurts out of the bomb, then turns to a wavering trail of smoke. "It chuffed," says one of the men glumly. "That...