Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of furniture to fill the empty rooms of their new buildings. The result is a family of modern classics in furniture, from bubble lamps to chrome-legged ottomans (see color page), that completes the modern picture as harmoniously as Sheraton and Chippendale fitted the classic Georgian settings of their...
...House will cost about five million dollars and hold 350 students, each of whom will have an individual study-bedroom. The President did not commit himself definitely on the style of the House, except to say that it would not be in the traditional Georgian, with entries and other expensive features...
Behind the President as he spoke was a large sketch showing one way of compromising between Georgian architecture and the approach used in the Graduate Center. This sketch (reproduced at right), featured a split-level arrangement with four study-bedrooms having access to a living room on a different floor. While the President did say that this plan had not been decided on, the emphasis placed upon it suggested that it was receiving important consideration...
...believed that the new Houses will cost approximately three million dollars, and will be built without much of the frills of the present Georgian-type, such as private bathrooms and the vertical-type entry...
...social functions of the Club definitely predominate the activities of its more than 6300 members. It is a sanctuary for those who wish to escape the City and return to the womb of their College days to participate once again in the Georgian splendors of their Alma Mater. From the lovely new rugs in the main hall embossed with the Veritas Seal to the squash courts on the upper floors, the Club manages to achieve the University ideal of gracious living which never quite comes across in the Houses...