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...natural that many Cantabrigians should be doubtful and willing to wait. The exceptionally bleak, forbidding, and almost illegal ugliness of Appleton Chapel, where there are prayers and Sunday services for such as choose to go to them, must have guided the discussions toward the substitution of a humane Georgian building sympathetic with the older and the newer architecture--except the unforgivingly alien Widener Library. Appleton Chapel, on the palette of memory, has a kind of dirty, yellow, jaundiced look. It seems to leave a gritty taste in the mouth...
...deacons. It is safe to say that most of them come from religious families. However that may be, in the long life of a historic institution there will be periods of religious reawakening and enthusiasm as well as of skepticism and indifference. And if it is beautiful, the Georgian chapel will be sufficiently justified. In view of the rooted Cambridge inclination to multanimity, we may say that Appleton is to be succeeded by another dissenting chapel. At least the architecture will be conformist. New York Times
...luncheon club is being formed for Harvard men in the Wall Street district of New York City. It is to be located on the fourth and fifth floors of the building at 83 Water Street now occupied by the Georgian Restaurant...
...customary bulldog posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would be even more preposterous than the three Wigglesworths of Massachusetts Avenue...
...eclectic" with the same fine scorn with which an Insurgent Senator pronounces the word "Republican," Lewis Mumford insisted that the new Chicago buildings are merely pseudo-classical buildings to which the architects have applied details of the new and at present fashionable style exactly as they applied Gothic, Renaissance, Georgian details to their steel frame skyscrapers...