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...last minute a brilliant red, yellow & blue macaw by the name of Toto slipped from his cage in the stately Georgian garden of Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
...pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...
...architecture, in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings, is modernized Georgian in style. One of the most notable features of the building at this stage of construction is the large number of spacious windows. Made of white-steel casement, this type of fenestration will insure an adequate supply of air and sunlight. Continuous ventilation in the new structure will also be made possible by an elaborate system of ducts operated on soundproof platforms on the top story...
...rapid succession in the Yard's few remaining open spaces. There can be no doubt that a very large group of men, alumni and undergraduates, are united in asking that if the new chapel is erected in the Yard, it be of moderate proportions. No pretentious spread of Georgian pillars and towers can be in keeping with the traditional simplicity of Harvard faith; nor will row after row of empty pews represent the spirit to be commemorated...