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Dormitory Ground-Breaking, Leon Lederman
Dormitory Ground-Breaking, Leon Lederman
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I think I have participated in a lot of ground-breaking ceremonies. In 1968, I watched them dig the first shovel for the creation of Fermilab -- eighteen years ago. You wield a ceremonial shovel and go about your business and before you know it -- a building exists and you say -- "my God, where did the time go?" But it isn't the building that we are breaking ground for today -- it's the institution; the I.M.S.A. and it is here -- within this volume of space, in middle America -- that we will make history -- that legends will …
The Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy: A Philosophy, Leon Lederman
The Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy: A Philosophy, Leon Lederman
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In establishing a' new kind of educational institution which is heavily dependent on public funding, it is incumbent to describe the goals and the means as clearly as possible. We do this here in several steps: We define the general objectives, the specifications and finally, the general philosophy.