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...toward maturity and continuity would be to condone a very questionable practice. University authorities must find some other solution than that of a drastic limitation of the graduate students in the Houses on order to enable the Freshman class to migrate en masse next year to the realm of Georgian facades and Moorish domes...
...school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison Gallery of American Art (TIME, May 25. 1931). Since 1928 a whole new Andover, in Georgian style, has been sprouting on the hill. Last week this seemed a great monument to ailing "Al" Stearns. And it also seemed a yardstick by which Thomas Cochran and the other trustees would certainly be obliged to measure the calibre of Andover's next headmaster...
...will probably affect the private exchange of the University, now located in Lehman Hall, is being erected on Ware Street, a block behind the Freshman Union. Having submitted plans of the new building to the University for approval, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company decided upon a Georgian form of architecture as being in greatest harmony with most of the more recent College buildings...
Questioned about the building, which is fast rearing its Georgian form above the neighboring structures. G. B. Edgell '09, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, expressed full approval yesterday afternoon of the taste shown by the telephone company in its architectural choice. "Whether the telephone companies in the different parts of the United States are associated, they all reveal, in the form of their buildings, many of which are massive structures, perhaps the most constructive and progressive of modern architectural form." The new Cambridge fire station, soon to be built on the present site of the Rogers Building, is also...
...There some philanthropist has established a "Penny Cafeteria," a restaurant which sells food at the price of one cent a dish. The place is clean and respectable, and it differs from soup kitchen in that those who patronize it suffer no more in morale than the patrons of the Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that the object of his generosity is not a beggar controlled...