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...Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls here, and considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...
...Some Georgian Churches of the Connecticut Countryside" is the subject of an illustrated public lecture to be given under the auspices of The Georgian Society of America by Frederic C. Palmer '25, of New London, Conn., architect and authority on Colonial buildings, at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Robinson Hall. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides from recent photographs by the speaker...
...GEORGIAN SCENE-Frank Swinnerton-Farrar & Rinehart...
...latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however: in a hundred years he will probably still be on the literary map, while I, and those like me, will have sunk without trace from every record of the Georgian...
...formed for the preservation and restoration of these old buildings, priceless historically and architecturally, before they are completely denatured. It must not be said of Harvard that she encourages Mayan and Romanesque restorations, and so shamefully neglects the treasures in her own Yard! John P. Brown. President, The Georgian Society of America...