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...actual differences between the colleges are: architecture, location, size, and the convictions of the master. Three of the Colleges are part Georgian, while the rest are a mixed design called "Standard Oil Gothic." Most students prefer Gothic because it has intimate courtyards and is collegiate. But many state on their College application blank that they don't want to live in the heavy lightless buildings. Location near fraternity row or labs is often an influential factor. Size is a matter of taste, and convictions of the master are quite important in a system whose success is dependent on masters' ability...
Meat-fed Trout. The brothers live as differently as they dress. George dwells (with son-in-law Sheldon Stewart) in a spacious Georgian house in Montclair, N.J., where he lives a lonely life despite the ministrations of ten servants. He amuses himself watching television (his favorite: Arthur Godfrey), listening to an electric organ played with automatic rolls, working jigsaw puzzles and tinkering with radio and TV sets. In the summer, he allows himself a suite at the ocean-side Monmouth Hotel in Spring Lake, N.J., but commutes to the office every day. He has never taken a vacation...
Final selection of architect and architectural style will rest, with the center's benefactor, who will also receive a permanent suite in the building. A tentative model shows a "Georgian" building constructed around three sides of a rectangular courtyard...
Modern architecture was about the only type that could be used in the center; if Georgian Colonial were used -- as in the Houses built in the depression -- the cost would have been enormous...
...filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were Parisian as ever...