Word: kirkland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...guests will assemble in the old Germanic Museum, in the triangle at Broadway, Cambridge and Quincy streets, and will then proceed to the site of the new building, on the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street. The exercises will consist of the actual laying of the cornerstone and an address by Ambassador von Bernstorff...
...desire, the Museum has been made essentially German in character, the plans being drawn by Professor Bestelmeyer, of Dresden, one of Germany's foremost architects. It consists of two wings placed at right angles to each other, and embraces an oblong rectangular space of about 130 feet on Kirkland street and about 200 feet on Divinity avenue and Frisble place. The main entrance is from Kirkland street, opening into a lower vestibule, with office-rooms on each side. Beyond a small rotunda is the Romanesque Hall, about 70 feet long, which will contain, among other valuable parts of the collection...
...remark commonly attributed to President Kirkland of Harvard College that the only use of statistics was in refuting other statistics suggests itself. But, more seriously considered, it seems likely that the law school stood with many boys prepared in private schools for the first thoroughly earnest intellectual effort. Not needing the monetary scholarships at college, they were satisfied with 'gentlemen's marks'; but, aroused by the call of professional ambition in the law school, they had thrown themselves into the work with enthusiasm...
...contribute eight hundred pounds additional. This old house with its generously spacious, colonial interior is still well preserved, and is now used as a dormitory. It was the residence of Presidents Wadsworth (1725-1737), Holyoke (1737-1769), Locke (1770-1773), Langdon (1774-1780), Willard (1781-1804), Webber (1806-1810), Kirkland (1810-1828), Quincy (1829-1845), and Everett (1846-1849). President Sparks, the next head of the University, lived in his own home on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy streets, where a little stone building now stands, housing a small theological school. His house, a large square one, has been...
...prospects for a splendid new Germanic Museum are very bright. Professor Bestelmeyer of Dresden, assisted by Professor H. L. Warren of Harvard, will have charge of the construction of the building. The Museum will stand on the oblong space between Kirkland street, Frisbie place, and Divinity avenue, opposite Randall Hall. It will consist of two wings, placed at right angles to each other, with a large tower at the juncture. Between the wings will be a court, for which shrubbery, statuary, arcades, and water-basins have been planned. One of the most prominent of the statues which will decorate this...