Word: plant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prospective plan for the future architectural development of Harvard University. This plan has been made possible by the gradual investment by a few interested graduates, who, by acquiring the land from Massachusetts avenue to the river between Holyoke and DeWolf streets, have opened a way for a model university plant...
...buildings, and why distorted ideas of architectural beauty should have been perpetuated in some of our least attractive structures. An intense absorption in the engrossing problems of education on the part of the governing authorities must be responsible for the uneven development of the University grounds. Why the power plant was allowed to drop down in the midst of the general scheme, and why Gore Hall was countenanced, are questions that we cannot answer, but are object lessons from which we may well benefit in the future...
...best features of the plan announced is that it allows the construction of the new buildings one at a time as the funds become available and as the growth of the chemistry department makes more room necessary. Though the complete plant may not be ready for some years, the work of getting it will be distributed, and will be less of a strain on the men who collect the funds and on those who give...
...exercises today and tomorrow the addition to the University plant of the new Dental School building is formally marked. The alumni and officers of the School have worked long and faithfully that they might give to present and future generations of students the privileges of adequate equipment which they themselves did not have. Their loyalty to this department, and through it to the University, has been well rewarded...
...Medical School with which it should naturally have close relations, and from the institutions where the practical instruction must be given. The new building is conveniently near to the Medical School, yet not so close that its dissimilarity in style detracts from the beauty of the more pretentious plant. It is in close proximity to several hospitals, and in a part of the city which seems likely to become even more than at present the educational centre of Boston...