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Extensive excavation is now being carried on in the Eliot House courtyard preparatory to planting a large number of bushes and flowers. Due to the lack of proper soil, loam will hare to be filled in to the extent of about two feet. About 15 trees have been planted recently...
...other Houses, Eliot House will hold the last of the spring dances in its Dining Hall from 10 to 2 o'clock this evening. Roy Lamson's 14-piece orchestra has been engaged for the affair. In spite of the extensive gardening which is going on in the courtyard, Japanese lanterns will be strung about the area...
...homely squash courts complete the physical facilities of the House. They serve the dual purpose of affording exercise and screening in modest fashion the execrable frame houses with their clothes lines that form a bleachers for the Mather courtyard...
...building is in the modernized Georgian style and in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings. An unusual feature, and one deserving of attention, is the hand-carved frieze above the upper tier of windows on the sides of the building forming the interior courtyard. This carving was done directly on the face of the brick in a bold, straight-forward manner, and portrays animal and plant life in its abundance giving at the same time a warm, friendly tone to the structure. The three wings already constructed from a rectangular court, with raised terraces which slope down to the still...
...rises out of the wildest and most desolate stretch of land in all the British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison. With true British love for tradition it has sturdily maintained its original character...