Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the will of Francis Bullard '86, late of Commonwealth avenue, the University has received some rare and valuable presents. To Harvard College is given a rare series of Goethe's "Faust," which is to be added to the Charles Eliot Norton collection of books in the College Library...
President.--Major H. L. Higginson '55, 191 Commonwealth avenue...
...Throughout his useful career he devoted untiring energy to the service of his profession and yet found time to accept various public duties. His service to the state for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis was remarkable. Although past middle life, he never hesitated when the needs of the Commonwealth called him, and gave up a toilsome and exacting profession to accept a chairmanship of the State Board for Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, which entailed duties, if possible, more toilsome. His work on the Harvard Corporation was distinguished by the same thoroughness and comprehensive interest as he showed...
Plans for the house of the Harvard Club of Boston, on the south side of Commonwealth avenue, just west of the corner of Massachusetts avenue, have been drawn by the architects, Parker, Thomas and Rice, of Boston, and accepted by the building committee of the club. Construction will begin soon and it is hoped that the house will be ready for occupancy in the early spring of 1914. The building will have a frontage of 100 feet on Commonwealth avenue and will extend back about 150 feet towards Newbury street. From there a lot, more than 50 feet deep...
...building is designed after the style of the Georgian period. It will be four stories high on Commonwealth avenue, and there will be a fifth story which will set back 33 feet from the front line. The facade will be constructed of brick and limestone; and the sides and back will be of brick. The central feature of the Commonwealth avenue facade will be a portico supporting four Ionic columns. The main entrance doors at this point will be of iron and glass. Above the portico is the Harvard seal carved in stone, the dominating feature of the design...