Word: bullfinch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Architects of the new wing are Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, and the directors of the Fogg Art Museum, Dr. E. W. Forbes and Professor P. S. Sachs...
Architecturally Dunster is not the chef-d'oeuvre of the Messrs, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. Its triangular shape and the necessary mass of chimneys would prevent that in any case. But it is at least a symmetrical and coherent whole and ranks second to Lowell as a good example of the Georgian style. Its location on the river adds to the beauty but makes for long walks to the Square. The tenements in the back, housing countless Saturday Evening Post vendors, obviously do not constitute an asset...
...Common Room wall paper, with its scenes of the American Revolution dominates the Exhibition. The architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, through C. A. Coolidge '81. Associate of Lowell House, have loaned two fine pencil drawings of the House. An early engraving of Harvard College in the exhibition is similar to the one used for the china of the House...
When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...