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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article in yesterday's issue explanatory of the aims and methods of the Architectural department is impressive of the fact that in another instance lack of funds is placing a check on a school which might be recognized among the important institutions of architectural training. The growth of the Department is a proof of its efficiency, and it is hard to think that without endowment this will soon reach the limit of the present accommodation...
...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
First is the question of a suitable approach from the park now being formed on the river bank but a short distance away. "It is not beyond the powers of imagination to suppose that the city might lend its aid to unite thus the river park and the College grounds by a short bit of park-like road. Then there is the decision as to main axes, so that breadth and long vistas may be obtained in the future when the buildings will inevitably be closer together than now. The axis through the Quincy street property might bear some relation...
...previously offered to any such a plan were, "that it was not desirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the College property should be formulated, as no sufficient knowledge could be had as to the amount of future bequests or the conditions on which money might be given, and that if adjoining lands were included in the scheme the difficulties of purchase would be increased." They had further stated, "that plans were in preparation showing the sites of existing buildings and containing some suggestions for open areas and future sites which had heretofore been made...
...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...