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...work of the German Renaissance can be displayed against an appropriate background. The intersection of the two wings is surmounted by a massive tower, that dominates the entire group. The rectangle between the two wings is to be developed as a courtyard enclosed by a garden wall, with cloister-like arcades upon two sides. The Romanesque Hall is about seventy feet long, with a high-vaulted ceiling supported by pillars forming alcoves. A cast of the "Golden Gate" of the Freiburg Cathedral at its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond. This arrangement is copied from...
...intersection of the two unequal wings is marked by a massive tower, that dominates the entire group and is the most striking decorative feature of its external design. The rectangle between the two wings is to be developed as an ornamental courtyard enclosed by a garden wall, with cloister-like arcades upon two sides. The Romanesque Hall is about seventy feet long with a vaulted ceiling supported by pillars forming alcoves; and a cast of the "Golden Gate" to Freiberg Cathedral as its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond, which sufficiently represents the crossing and choir...
...main entrance of the building leads into a long a hall built to produce the effect of an interior cloister. Turning to the right along this hall leads to the library reference room and book-stacks. These stacks are large enough to hold the combined libraries of the Andover the combined libraries of the Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School. They are thoroughly fireproof, and lighted in the day time by skylights. Glass flooring allow this light to reach the lower floors...
...facing Divinity avenue, the shorter one stretching from Divinity avenue to Frisbie place, parallel with Kirkland street, but set back from it some 100 feet. The space between the two wings is conceived of as an ornamental court, with shrubs, statuary, and waterbasins, connected with the Museum itself by cloister-like arcades running along Kirkland street and Frisbie place. A massive tower rising at the point of junction of the two main wings holds the various parts of the design firmly together. Thus the whole structure is marked by a happy combination of diversity and unity, of picturesqueness and monumental...
Through you the American people have begun to see that a University is not a cloister for the recluse, but an expression of all that is best in the Nation's thought and character. From, Harvard University men go into every part of our national life. To Harvard University come from the common schools, through paths that have been broadened by your work, the youth who have the capacity and the will to profit by her teaching Your influence is felt in the councils of the teachers and in the education of the youngest child...