Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little red brick colonial structure in the Harvard yard known as Massachusetts Hall, so small that it could be put inside the dining room in Memorial Hall, is the oldest university building in the United States. The two hundredth anniversary of its erection falls within the present College year, and plans are under way for the suitable commemoration of the event. The great and General Court made a grant of 8500 pounds in 1718 for the building of a "new college" to be named in honor of the province, and in 1720 the hall was completed. Princeton's "Old Nassau...
...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
Craigie Hall is a large, red brick structure, situated near Brattle Square. Last year 90 members of the University, most of them law and graduate students, were lodged in its 32 rooms, but this fall it was not put into use because of the great decline in the number of students in the University...
...Dean '17 Harold, A. Putnam '18 Mary, B. Norman '18 Spirit of the Movies, C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17. Vera, F. H. Cabot '17 A slave, A. W. Clark '18 Lasky, W. Rand '17 Oscar, maitre d'hotel, F. L. Stagg '17 Hammond Egg, G. B. Blaine '17 Heaver Brick, M. A. Hawkins '18 Swing Lo. J. Melcher...
Altougher there are six dormitories, each independent of the other save for emergency fire doors, which are combined into a large L-shaped brick structure, four stories in height, situated east of the educational buildings on the River-way. In the space between the dormitories and the River-way will be placed President Maclaurin's house, for which the foundations have already been laid. The new dormitory building is in the Florentine style of architecture with the characteristic tower in the angle of the wings...