Word: bullfinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives of the Alumni Committee for a Memorial Activities Center, a body of younger graduates which has led the campaign for the "utilitarian" memorial, are constantly working with Committee architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott and are assisting in evolution of the plans...
April 15 was set by the group as the date for a final decision, with the architectural estimate to have been procured before then. Presumably, the estimate will come from the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, whose representative, Henry R. Shepley '10, attended the meeting...
...features of the Center it envisioned. When the War Memorial Committee received the recommendation, in company with a then-swollen roster of some 34 possibilities ranging from expanded ROTC facilities to a Harvard Forest, the document went in toto for a financial estimate to University architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott of 1 Court Street...
...date, the alert neophyte can learn a little about his environment--if he is skilled at assembling jig-saw puzzles. If he has time for the more thoughtful courses in history, literature, and the fine arts, he will not clude Sam Adams, nor West nor Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...
...camouflaged tent at the headquarters of the 13th Corps, Churchill lunched on prawns mayonnaise, ham and tongue, rolls, butter and cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...