Maxwell-Dworkin Building DONGIK LEE
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Scenes from the Sidewalk
Historians looking back at the 1990s may well remember the decade as another era of bricks and mortar. The University has been engaged in renovations and new construction at a pace not seen since the postwar boom of the Pusey years. At top, a view of the new racquets facility, topped with scoreboard, at the open end of Harvard Stadium. The building, sporting 16 squash courts, a weight room, six tennis courts, offices for athletic department administrators, and new digs for the Varsity Club, is the gift of Michael Murr '73. One of the most important academic priorities of the University's capital campaign is being addressed with the construction of the Maxwell-Dworkin building (right), which will house 30 computer science and electrical engineering faculty members, 22 of whom are already at Harvard, with eight more to be appointed. William H. Gates III '77 and Steven A. Ballmer '77 of Microsoft gave the $25-million gift that made the project possible. The ground floor will have classrooms for 35, 50, and 135 students; every seat will be equipped with data jacks and power outlets.
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