Word: designed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rear of the University Museum, facing north. It is rectangular in shape, 40 feet wide by 72 feet in length. The general appearance of the structure is in keeping with the older Harvard buildings and the colonial type of architecture has been followed out in the exterior design. The base of the building is built of granite blocks and the three upper stories of dull Harvard brick with limestone trimmings. A limestone cornice adds the necessary finish to the front of the building. The structure is three stories high, with a basement all but three feet above the ground...
...accident, or it may be design, that two articles devoted to the analysis of living problems outside of the field of athletics should appear in this athletic number. One is by Hon. Wm. C. Redfield, M. C., on "The New Industrial Organization," the other is by A. H. Whitman on "Opportunities in Business Training." Mr. Redfield's article, which is the second of a series on "The College Man and Current Problems," is sane and well balanced, but somewhat dull and pointless. Mr. Whitman presents a convincing argument in favor of the training furnished by the Harvard Graduate School...
...Harvard Engineering Society. "The Design of an Earthquake-proof Water Supply System to be Installed in Japan," by Mr. C. S. Brisk, in the Common Room, Conant Hall...
...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...
Professor Eugene Duquesne, professor of architectural design in the University, at the request of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made in view of Professor Despradelle's death, is to give some instruction at Technology to advanced students. Arrangements have been consummated, and Professor Duquesne has already begun his work at the Institute. This is a reciprocation of what Technology did a few years ago when Professor Despradelle took a class at the Harvard School, and has been done at the request of President Maclaren to President Lowell, and with the approval of the Harvard School of Architecture...