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...Lowell, Mass., graduate students bend over drafting tables inside the Boott Cotton Mills, which produced textiles from 1835 until 1955. Working with ink on translucent Mylar, one of them delineates the canals that carried water from the Merrimack River to giant turbines beneath the mills. Says Deborah Hurst, from Washington University in St. Louis: "The technology used when these buildings were built is extraordinary...
...industrial Venice without gondolas. But if its partly abandoned textile mills are to survive, they must be occupied and put to new uses. To promote interest in redevelopment, the HABS team is preparing floor plans and renderings of the most dramatic of Lowell's old plants, the Boott Mills complex...
Ronald C. Perera '62 will receive the Francis Boott prize, $250, for his composition in concerted vocal music...
...Francis Boott Prize has been given to John C. Crawford 1G for a composition for mixed chorus and strings, entitled "Magnificat." The prize, open to all University students, is awarded to the composer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. It must be between three and eight parts, and require not more than ten minutes for performance...
John Charlton Crawford, a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Francis Boott Prize for 1955-56. He receieved the award and a prize of $100 for a composition for mixed chorus and strings, entitled "Magnificat...