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...Carpenter Center at Harvard, as well as the principle government buildings in Chandigarh and the chapel of Ronchamp, show an attention to sculpturesque form, which clashes with strictly utilitarian considerations. This view of buildings as sculpture, though, is a development of another consistent strain in Le Corbusier's thought: architecture as the "masterly, correct and magnificent play" of primary forms -- spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, and pyramids. This attention to form is evident even in his very first work, a house designed for his art teacher...
...these earliest buildings, the real masterpieces are Massachusetts Hall, Holden Chapel, and Apthorp House. Massachusetts Hall, one of Harvard's truly prize possessions, is the oldest College building, constructed in 1720. Few University buildings of equal merit have been erected since. The classic simplicity of its Georgian lines, the excellence of its brickwork, and its immaculate proportions are impossible to better. Holden Chapel, designed by an unknown Englishman, is a very beautiful little building, which manages to look modest and aristocratic at the same time. Its symetrical simplicity is much like that of Massachusetts Hall, the only flourish being...
...people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
Died. The Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, 80, minister to the soul and mind of countless students as Princeton University's Dean of the Chapel from 1928 to 1947, an outspoken preacher-teacher who was known to one and all as "Pop" and was tirelessly devoted to his chosen duty, beginning at 65 a series of "retirements," first from Princeton, then from Hamilton College, Lawrenceville School, and finally in 1961 from Phillips Exeter Academy; of a stroke; in Exeter...
...started when a freshman refused to obey the instructions of a tutor and was accordingly punished by the administration. His classmates came to his rescue, assembled under Rebellion Elm, and stirred rioting which interrupted classes for two months. Tutors' windows and furniture were smashed, torpedoes were sailed through the Chapel, President Josiah Quincy was hanged in effigy, and explosions violated the virtuous Yard. A number of the rioters received the customary dismissal but at least two were taken to court and tried on a variety of civil charges...