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...Wheeler contends that Memorial Hall is suitable because it has a cathedral exterior and can be easily remodeled inside. He finds it shameful that such a building should play so little part in the daily life of the student, and sees no objection to combining the memorials to the dead of two wars under one roof. He also puts forward the prominent position of the structure as an argument for making it the new chapel...
Then again, granted that Memorial Hall has a prominent position, there is no cause for emphasizing that prominence. The cathedralesque exterior of which Mr. Wheeler speaks is an architectural monstrosity, an abortive blot on the landscape. The new memorial should at least be pleasant to look upon...
...When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...
Only a general strike of all trades could seriously retard the work in the interior of Massachusetts Hall. The completed exterior has been restored to its original appearance and two chimneys, lacking in the building which burned, have been erected on foundations provided in the original building...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...