Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard University's retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell told the freshman class, "Gentlemen, I am at the end of the escalator . . . the bottom. You are at the top and starting down...
Plans, which have been prepared by the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, provide for a five-story dormitory unit which will accommodate 40 students. There will be four single and two double suites on each floor. As a result of this extension, Kirkland House will have facilities for about 250 men, the average for the seven other units in the House Plan. These plans were considered and approved at a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, on Monday, March...
...historic Yard and the tortuous Charles, its gold tower dwarfed by the belling pinnacle of Lowell House, is Adams House, unit of the House Plan which combines the relies of the Gold Coast age with the latest products of the fertile minds of those masters, Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch & Abbott, to form an architectural jumble, but at the same time a bizarre and altogether pleasing entirety. For though Westmorly and Randolph are separated by an intervening unit containing the Dining Hall, Common Rooms, Library, and C entry, the whole is linked together by a subterranean passage which has access...
...GRACE ABBOTT...
Another scholarship plan for British lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary...