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...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
...most beautiful buildings in the Yard is a red brick Georgian dormitory which exhibits the simple grace of Puritan England. It is a very famous part of Harvard Great men have broken the ice in their water pails of a cold January morning in days past. Its name is the nom de plume of a contemporary writer. It has looked down upon the Yard while countless generations of Harvard men have trailed out of Sever, and it has seen many able presidents trip on the third stone step of University Hall as they mount for the day's work...
...church militant, triumphant and jubilant in its spirited movement. In the Crucifixus is the humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead him, the Vagabond succeeds in escaping the Georgian in order to turn back again to the shadowed richness of the Gothic...
...attends the forthcoming destruction of the Rogers Building. This measure deprives the School of the Drama of its only home, turning the students of stagecraft all too melodramatically out into the snow. And far more disastrously, it paves the way for a fire-station the evils of which to Georgian facade can palliate...
...Cambridge fire station, to be erected on the plot of land between Memorial Hall and the Yard, will be of Colonial Georgian architecture, to conform with the Harvard buildings, according to information received yesterday. A preliminary appropriation has been made by the city council, and an architect will be appointed shortly, Mayor R. M. Russell '14 also stated. Work on the demolition of the Rogers Building, which now occupies this land, will begin as soon as plans are completed and construction of the station will be started during the present academic year...