Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week officials triumphantly announced that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had agreed to take on the financing of a spectacular $50 million project to clear 23 acres of the Triangle's point, convert it into a park and construct three modern office buildings...
Sever, built in 1880, was Richardson's first opus after he finished Trinity Church in Boston. It was the first time he really went modern, and marks the inauguration of the "Richardson style," which has since been damned because of the ugly efforts of Richardson's many imitators. Sever, however, is considered a masterpiece. A Wellesley architecture course makes a yearly pilgrimage to the Yard...
Sever's 37 classrooms have been used mostly for courses in Math, Modern Languages, and Classics. The Fine Arts department once occupied "the Loft" on the fourth floor, in the days when the only fire escape was a series of ropes on he side of the building towards Emerson. Sever also houses a large collection of classical antiquities, including 42 portrait busts of Julius Caesar. The current refurbishing has doomed the whole collection to the attic...
Nothing for the eager ones this morning. Nine o'clock is blank. Ten o'clock is more promising. Hudnut's Humanities 114, architecture and city design from Thebes to Modern Boston, meets in Hunt Large Room. Pleasant and interesting course with slides. LeCorbeiller and Nat. Sci. 1 convene at Byerly Hall, Radcliffe. Excellent lectures feature brilliant explanations. Demos is delightful in Phil, 1a, though the course is no snap (Emerson...
Eleven is an ideal time for class, between breakfast and lunch, cramping neither. Gucrard, with a reputation of being an excellent but demanding lecturer, is giving Comp. Lit. 166, a half course in the "Forms of the Modern Novel." It could be a very good bet (Emerson D). Nock's History of Religions 101 is highly entertaining. Good to listen in on occasionally (Harvard 5). Kenneth Conant's Fine Arts 179, "American Architecture." is non-technical, not difficult, and excellent to audit. Slides and aucedotes (Fogg Large Room...