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...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with topographic maps of a given piece of property supposed to be along the Charles River. On the assumption that a benefactor had given money to the Toplarian Club (of which men in the School of Landscape Architecture are members) for a small country club, the plans submitted included a garden for pleasure and experimental growth of plants, tennis courts, a boat house for canoes, and other arrangements for the pleasure of the members of the club...
...competition is a problem in landscape design. This year the competitors have been furnished with topographic maps of a given piece of property supposed to be along the Charles River. On the assumption that a benefactor has given money to the Topiarian Club, of which men in the Landscape Architectural School are the members, for a small country club, the plans submitted are to include a garden and an experimental growth of plants, a boat house for canoes, and tennis courts, as well as other arrangements for the pleasure of the members of the club...
...selected company of eminent scholars and special students" from the faculties of American colleges; in addition, men of international reputation will be invited. Lectures, conferences and round table discussions will be the method of study, which next summer is to be devoted particularly to international problems. An unknown benefactor has relieved the Institute of financial worries for three years; and with the announcement that Ambassador Davis is taking with him to London an invitation to Lord Robert Cecil to be present at its opening session, the Institute seems to be in the hands of energetic men who are sure...
...physicochemical problems is, of course, going on at the laboratory all the time with the assistance of interested young men, who are usually candidates for the doctor's degree, and with the cooperation of many scientific individuals and institutions. The Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a generous anonymous benefactor, have provided funds for apparatus and expert help...
...athletic teams which formerly decorated the walls, to positions along the stairways, and is hanging in their stead a number of paintings borrowed from Memorial Hall, Fogg Museum, and other college buildings. Among these paintings is one by Blackburn, the Colonial artist, of Johannes Lowell, a former Fellow and benefactor of the University, several portraits of other prominent graduates and officers, and a work by Felix Ziem of a view in Venice. The stag and elk heads and athletic trophies will, of course, be kept in the room...