Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion by the CRIMSON that the memorial to Harvard soldiers take the form of a great auditorium building seems to me a very happy one. To the request that I offer some thoughts concerning this idea, I am glad to respond. The need of a place for public or great University gatherings has been of late years, so keenly felt as to be a problem. The Stadium is doubtless a fitting place for a part of the Class Day exercises but for Commencement it is in every way unsuited. No other place is at present adequate. So great has been...
President Eliot will speak on "Unitarianism--Its Influence, Past and Future" at the weekly meeting of the Harvard Forum in the auditorium of the First Church (Unitarian) at 7.45 o'clock tonight...
...suggestions made for a memorial for the Harvard men who have lost their lives in the war, that of a building containing a large auditorium seems to me, from all points of view, the best. It is hardly necessary to dwell on the need of such a building. The auditorium could be used for all the larger University gatherings, for Class Day and Commencement exercises, for symphony and other large concepts, and for larger theatrical performances...
...same time, a smaller theatre could with a little ingenuity on the part of the architects, be provided below the large auditorium for the Dramatic Club, and other smaller performances which include the regular plays of the 47 Workshop...
...auditorium, on the other hand, could be made a permanent monument. It could be constructed in brick, and designed, like the Freshman dormitories, to harmonize with the traditional Harvard buildings. I believe there would be little danger, at the present day, of creating an architectural monstrosity like Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre and a very good chance of obtaining something of the simple dignity and delightfulness of detail of the Freshman buildings