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...turned out to be a hard promise to keep. The wound he suffered in Italy three weeks before the end of the war left him immobilized below the neck. When they eventually shipped him home to die, Cramer writes, "Bina had to pick eight cigarette butts out of his plaster cast. She told her sisters: they'd used her boy for an ashtray on the train...
...should be obvious, it would be virtually impossible to copy the hand-worked craftsmanship of the Great Hall today: and, even if one could, it would be but a copy of the greater original. Apart from requiring millions of dollars for quarter-sawn white American oak, plaster strap-work, limestone and bronze, it is not possible to replicate the character of such period-work today--expert craftsmen are hard to find at best, non-existent at worst and they are bound and informed by the characteristics of their own age, not of ages previous...
Reiff refers to the plans to alter the original plaster relief that now constitutes the ceiling. The renovations will create a skylight in the new ceiling, while raising one section and lowering another. Some of the original wood paneling will also be discarded...
...with shock and dismay that I discovered the University's plans to destroy the Freshmen Union's Great Hall. Harvard's administrators and planners claim that since the Union is being moved, the 90-foot-long hall--which has hardwood paneling, an extravagant plaster ceiling, and stone fireplaces, and which has served as a gathering place for Harvard students for 100 years--is expendable. They want to rip out the hall's decoration and subdivide it into offices. Before this happens we can only hope that the administration comes to its senses. The hall should be preserved not only became...
Another major benefactor, Adolphus Busch of beer and Clydesdale fame, was more interested in his own cultural roots, so he founded the Germanic Museum in 1903 and turned over a large gift of statues, sculptures and plaster-cast architecture samples to the Museums. Now the Center for European Studies, Busch Hall drew some of the most important Germanic art in all of North America when Bauhaus and Expressionist artists seeking refuge brought their private collections...