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Eliot House, a large Georgian polygon bordered by Boyston St. and Memorial Drive, has the best formed image of any Harvard house. Supposedly the domain of "Preppies," the House appears somewhat exclusive and detached from the rest of the University. This detachment is enhanced by its location; with the exception of Dunster, Eliot is farther away from the Yard than any other House. Built around a small courtyard which is used as an athletic field in the fall and winter, the House is composed of converted doubles intermixed with larger complexes. Master Finley has created a number of consolidated suites...
...surface, Kirkland House is drab. Its Georgian architecture seems to have been designed by an unconvinced Puritan, and, if anything has happened there recently, few outsiders remember hearing...
...Soviet visitors represented six churches: the Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches, the Armenian Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Estonia and Latvia, and the All-Union Council of the Evangelical Christians (Baptists). They came in response to an invitation issued by National Council leaders on their trip to the Soviet Union last year. "This is not a cultural exchange but a Christian exchange," explained Dr. Blake. "The difference between these men and other Russian delegations is that these men, like ourselves, are practicing Christians...
...built an entire city in India, the site of the proposed building at Harvard University must have looked no bigger than a 50-franc note. The new Visual Arts Center that Harvard wanted France's irascible Le Corbusier to build was to stand between the neo-Georgian Faculty Club on busy Quincy Street and the more heavy-handed neo-Georgian Fogg Art Museum only yards away. How could the master of "brutal"' architecture put up anything that would not look like a brash intruder? Last week the center was in full operation, and Harvard was pretty much agreed...
...very well, critics say, to want to achieve a perfect "interpenetration of outdoor and indoor space"; but even Le Corbusier could not get around the fact that for those on the inside, the "outdoor spaces" are going to seem rather full of the center's Georgian red brick neighbors. As for Le Corbusier's famous concrete sunbreakers, one professor thinks that they show "a fantastically optimistic opinion of the amount of sunlight there is in Cambridge." And finally, since the asymmetrical building is wrapped around symmetrically spaced pilotis, the structural columns are apt to rise any old place...