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...Business Administration was being built across the Charles, two undergraduates, having passed French 2, and mellowed by their celebrations, solved the problem. The Morgan Business Library was still a mess of foundations and holes, Feeling that a library of any sort should be built not only of bricks, mortar, gilt domes, but also of books, they did their part. Contractors arriving on the job the next morning found piled in the corner of the future basement of the Morgan Library, beside a steam shovel, a collection of the eight little blue textbooks...
Recurrently many a scholar looks back wistfully at the early days of Johns Hopkins University. It was housed in some plain Baltimore buildings which people thought resembled a piano factory. But its President Daniel Coit Gilman sloganed: "Men, not bricks and mortar." In the early 1880's Abraham Flexner was a student there, while Dr. Richard Theodore Ely was busy founding its chair of economic science. Largely out of Dr. Flexner's enthusiasm for the Johns Hopkins method came the Institute for Advanced Study he is building in Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante...
...lifted in a cradle of other bearing him up and up until he thought he would burst. Far below him he saw his friends pouring Scotch into opaque glasses and sometimes just pouring Scotch. He saw himself standing alone on a great platform in a black gown and a mortar board. There was no one about. No crowds, no mothers, no girls, nothing...
...lasted from early morn till evening. Like many college students, proud of their ability in classroom foreign languages, a few were anxious to show their knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four...
William J. Fox, construction engineer for the Supervisors, testified that school buildings were "covered with ornaments stuck on with chewing gum." The Los Angeles Examiner said that it had analyzed mortar used in school buildings, found it one-third to one-half as strong as required by law. Another engineer, W. M. Bostock, was of the opinion that "no moral or legal responsibility is to be fixed. At the worst the builders were greedy and wanted a little too much building for their money...