Word: killam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches, sweeping curves and broken lines appropriate...
These were some of the plans disclosed last week by deep-voiced, horn-bespectacled Henry Killam Murphy, able Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai-shek had commissioned Architect Murphy to plan a new city of Nanking, a new capital for the Nationalist government...
...following article commenting on the proposed changes in the Charles River Basin was written for the Crimson by C. W. Killam, Professor of Architecture and chairman of the Cambridge Planning Board...
Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese capital, may spend...
...Forbes '29, J. R. Graham '30, J. E. Gurney 1G,B., L. Harap '28, A. G. Hart '30, G. C. Held 1G, W. J. Henrick '28, S. A. Howes 2G, F. B. Hyde '30, J. A. Jarosi '30, D: A. Kaplan '29, G. S. Kenison '29, P. O. Killam '28, E. Kitson Sp., E. R. Koontz 1L, H. W. Lamb 30, and L. P. Marks...