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Shortly after noon the formal dedication will take place in the foyer of the new laboratory. William M. Hickey will speak for the Harvard Engineering Society, of which he is president, and Gordon M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Master of Dunster House, will sketch McKay's life...
This grandeur is also obvious in the impressive foyer--bulwarked by a four-inch thick mahogany door. A carved, domed ceiling overlooks the entrance, which leads a marbled path to the massive grand staircase. An erratic elevator, however, bears most of the traffic to upper floors...
...heated his foyer...
Because of these limitations on the size and scope of the collection, specialists will find little to interest them beyond the glass doors and the pink marble foyer. Lamont's collections of books on such subjects as law, business, education, agriculture, and the fine arts are purposely small. Although the percentage of books on science has risen somewhat since the opening of the library, by far the greater part of the collection falls under headings dean to the hearts of the humanities and social sciences instructors. The esoteric book has no place on Lamon's shelves. For better or worse...
...view were 25 rooms, ranging from a simple dining patio in white and yellow to a palatial black and green foyer. The decorators seemed as much concerned with fun as functionalism. Some of the ideas were clearly impractical, e.g., a dining-room floor made of tooled blue leather, but most were bound to set housewives thinking. The colors seemed to come from a painter's palette-sparkling topaz yellow, lime green, burnt orange, cocoa brown, wine red. Decorators drew their materials from all over the world, combined Philippine rattan with American brass, mixed 19th century antiques with 20th century...