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...applicable to civilian jobs. Hundreds of thousands of servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...
Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain many triangles...
...President and Fellows of Harvard College narrowly escape serious injury when the Harvard University Pavilion, designed by Dean Sert as a miniature version of the tenth House, topples over during the opening ceremonies...
...Harvard Corporation announces that on the recommendation of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, it has commissioned architects Sert, Jackson, and Gourley to construct the tenth House in the form of a "windowless inverted pyramid." Sert applauds the Corporation on its "forward vision," adding, "I see no conflict of interest in my position...
...warm Thursday night, thousands of Harvard men turn out for an Architecture Riot to protest the design of the tenth House. The vibrations of so many people running through the streets cause the giant steel framework of the Sert pyramid to topple into the Charles...