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FORTY YEARS ON THE RUTE TOURISTIQUE
Unable to put his building in the Yard, Corbusier tried to bring the Yard into his building. The striking ramp that bifurcates the building both laterally and vertically—“un rute touristique,” as Corbusier named it—would make clear to visitors the importance of the practice of art within the Harvard community...
...Last Word. Precise standards of measurement are a present-day perplexity. On a laboratory wall in the U.S. Bureau of Standards hangs a blow-up of a 16th century woodcut showing 16 men lined up heel to toe to define the rute, an old German measure of length related to the English rod. That was fine for the 1500s. But since then, each advance in technology has required better measurements. The standard meter bar, adopted by 28 nations, including the U.S.. in 1875, was considered the last word. Used with elaborate comparing devices, it could measure with an accuracy...
...rule at Memorial which requires a week's notice to be given before leaving the hall. This complaint is made not in behalf of those who wish to leave the hall, but for the many who are on the waiting list. There is no doubt that the rute is wise in many ways, and one that should be strictly adhered to in the ordinary condition of affairs. At this time, however, there seems to be every reason for a temporary suspension of the regulation in question. As things stand at present, each extra week which a man intending to leave...
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