Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 51 years of service as a University dormitory Beck Hall and the traditions connected with it, are again threatened with destruction. It has been purchased by the Beck Hall Trust, of which G. P. Davis '14 is the trustee. Plans for the future of the building and the land on which it rests remain doubtful, but it is possible that it may be torn down to give place to a new structure to be built on the Beck Hall lot and the property abutting it on the east. The transaction has just been brought to a close...
...Stiliman '98 purchased it in order that it might be retained by the University as a student lodging house, and in order that its Harvard traditions might not be destroyed. Upon his death in the summer of 1926, the executors, in order to settle his estate, announced Beck Hall for sale. The present trust has purchased it "purely for business purposes," said Trustee Davis in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday...
...years. After some time it was bought by a group of Harvard graduates and in 1907 again changed hands, finally to wind up in 1924 in the hands of Samuel Lebowitch, who expected to tear it down. It was at this time that it was temporarily saved by Stillman. Beck Hall has been the college residence of many of Harvard's most eminent, graduates, and records show that during the past few years, graduates have engaged rooms in it before-hand for sons still attending kinder-garten...
After having triumphantly survived several grave crises scattered throughout its distinguished lifetime Beck Hall has finally passed into the ruthless hands of cold blooded business men. Not to preserve its historic association, not to aid the University in providing convenient lodgings for its students, but merely to stretch as best they may their own pocket books, have the latest purchasers of Beck Hall sought its ownership. If financial expediency so dictates they may even compass its total demolition...
...building comparatively young, as Harvard buildings go, and entirely outside the hallowed precincts of the Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live...