Word: planner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement of the curriculum of the Harvard School of City Planning reveals that several of America's most noted city planners and landscape architects will lecture at the school this year, among them A. C. Comey '07, whose work in the past has gained him the position of city planner for Milwaukee and St. Paul, and John Nolen, who drew up the general plans for the Babson Institute and for Smith and Bates Colleges...
Other men who will be heard at different times during the term are Robert Whitten, city planner from New York City, and A. A. Shurtleff '96, an instructor in landscape architecture at Harvard during 1899-1906, adviser to the Metropolitan Planning Division of Boston from 1907 to 1909, and an adviser to the Boston Park Department since...
...Bassett, ex-congressman and member of the advisory committee on zoning of the Department of Commerce in 1922, will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers...
...James. Once they sold newspapers, and then they sold real estate, and now they have shifted to the buying side of merchandising and make railroads their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...
...Enfant Plan. Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and Revolutionary War officer, was engaged as chief city-planner. Engineer L'Enfant placed the Capitol on a low eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill...