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...best known of the Houses. Its name, its bells, and its adverse criticism have combined to keep it continually before the public. As far as architecture is concerned, it is undoubtedly the most attractive. At the outset it had the advantage of a rectangular lot more suited to the Georgian style than the triangle of Dunster or the polygon of Eliot. And the building itself with its Independence Hall tower and its facades borrowed from Massachusetts, Bollis, and Holworthy has achieved a surprising beauty and proportion. A great deal was gained by leaving the original trees in the courtyards, creating...
...chef-d'oeuvre of the Messrs, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. Its triangular shape and the necessary mass of chimneys would prevent that in any case. But it is at least a symmetrical and coherent whole and ranks second to Lowell as a good example of the Georgian style. Its location on the river adds to the beauty but makes for long walks to the Square. The tenements in the back, housing countless Saturday Evening Post vendors, obviously do not constitute an asset...
...only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor...
...appeal to the imagination. Suppose it were handled by a genius with a sense of the theatrical values of the contest, who would assure everyone a good time. He would hire cars with amplifiers to cruise the streets of Cambridge blaring the virtues of the candidates beneath the Georgian walls. The contestants, dressed in the height of fashion, blazing in House colors, hold banquets, giving away cigars, speeches, and spreading their ineffable personalities. Good spirits should not be forgotten, either. And then, after a week of Bacchanalian ballyhoo, the election is held viva voce...
...building is in the modernized Georgian style and in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings. An unusual feature, and one deserving of attention, is the hand-carved frieze above the upper tier of windows on the sides of the building forming the interior courtyard. This carving was done directly on the face of the brick in a bold, straight-forward manner, and portrays animal and plant life in its abundance giving at the same time a warm, friendly tone to the structure. The three wings already constructed from a rectangular court, with raised terraces which slope down to the still...