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Gore and Standish Halls, although both Georgian in architecture, are slightly different in size and style. The new building, also Georgian, would attempt to harmonize with the two existing sections...
...Georgian Style Favored...
Despite an organized movement on the part of some alumnae, the Center will be of Georgian design, in red brick. It was felt by some that modern architecture, similar to that of the Harvard Graduate Center, should be used. The College favored Georgian style, however, so the Quadrangle would fit in with other Radcliffe buildings...
...year history, it has turned out such alumni as Poet Archibald MacLeish, Yale President Whitney Griswold, former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, Henry Ford II. Today, over its 480-acre Georgian campus, its 353 students still pursue their education with an intensity most any school would envy. It takes in boys of every race and religion, makes them clean their own rooms and wait on table. But more important than its disciplined democracy is the quality of its intellectual fare. The boys are taken up through calculus and analytic geometry, read everything from the Iliad (in Greek) to Racine...
...modernity of these murals forms a singular contrast to the white-toward Georgian beauty of the library, which Dartmouth candidly claims is the largest college library in the world, with 750,000 volumes. Rising Lowell-House-like above the "green", Baker Library houses a variety of treasured, including such outstanding author collections as those of Robert Burns, George Ticknor, Stephen crane, and Robert Frost and such regional libraries as the Stefannson Collection on polar areas. Since Dartmouth prides itself on a "teaching" faculty, most professors there do comparatively little research. Thus, the library is considered easily adequate for their needs...