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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch-English family, in America since 1634. He studied for a while at Columbia University and went to Paris in 1880, entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied architecture in the atelier of Jules André. In Paris he became imbued with the great French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White...
...countrywide competition for the New York Public Library. In 1911 when the building was opened to the public John Carrère was killed in a street accident. In his will, Architect Hastings has left $250,000 to remodel the library's facade, with which he was never quite satisfied...
...skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors. He was al ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before...
Sporadically, variously, but never so sweepingly as last week, censure has spattered the methods and conduct of U. S. college athletics. Last week's censure was a fat, dun-colored tract labeled "Bulletin 23," published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching after more than three years examining of athletic correspondence, finances, coaching, hygiene in U. S. and Canadian institutions...
...misleading. ..." New York University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...