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Work was begun last Monday on a concrete foundation four feet below the ground. Above this will be erected a large brick base with decorations of white stone, upon which will rest a square pedestal of Knoxville marble, will be executed in herole size by Mckim, Mead and White, of New York. A stone settee, ten feet long, will be placed in front of the statue, and the windows on each side of the niche will be bricked up in order to give greater prominence to the bust...
Announcement was made, at the last Faculty meeting of the endowment of an annual prize of one hundred dollars and a silver medal, in memory of Lloyd McKim Garrison '88. The prize, which will bear Mr. Garrison's name, will be awarded for the best English poem on a subject to be chosen annually by a committee of the English Department. The first competition for the prize will be held next year and will be open to all undergraduates in the University...
...difficulty accommodate fifty people, the space in Harvard Hall will provide for two or three hundred. The fourth and fifth floors will be occupied by bedrooms to accommodate out-of-town members. Two squash courts are to be built on the roof. The architects for the new addition are McKim, Mead & White; the contractors are Norcross Brothers...
...Robinson of New York has presented for the main entrance of Robinson Hall two massive, cast bronze doors. They have been completed in New York from the designs of McKim, Mead and White, and are Renaissance in exterior ornamentation, but Greek on the inside. The doors will be about fourteen feet high and seven feet wide. Eight of the panels will be portrait medallions of Italian architectural designers of the Renaissance period...
...Daniel C. French, has been offered by the class of '83 as a gift to the University. This bust will be placed on the northern side of Massachusetts Hall, opposite the entrance to Harvard Hall, in a niche formed by the closing of two small windows. C. F. McKim h.'90, will design the pedestal and bench of marble on which the bust is to rest. The bench will also be used as a place from which the head marshal may form the procession of classes on Commencement...