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...specified ten features of the Center it envisioned. When the War Memorial Committee received the recommendation, in company with a then-swollen roster of some 34 possibilities ranging from expanded ROTC facilities to a Harvard Forest, the document went in toto for a financial estimate to University architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott of 1 Court Street...
...September Henry R. Shepley '10 had turned over in behalf of his firm a tentative set of blueprints based on the Council's suggestions. The plans sent cold shivers of quizzical delight up the spines of those boosters who got a look. Shepley's fertile imagination had produced sketches of a six-story high main building connecting to a 2000-capacity theater wing. It was all wonderful, but like peace, how could it be realized...
Wise in the ways of the extra-University world, Axt guessed that the financial estimate accompanying Shepley's plan could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
...that the cards are on the table, the financial estimate has hit $2,500,000, with a $1,500,000 figure from Shepley Wednesday and an endowment approximation by Lowell the same day of an even million. This is admittedly not a maximum estimate and would have to undergo revision were labor and material costs to suddenly rise. But Axt feels it is a figure which would probably have created a psychological climate more favorable to his cause had it appeared two months...
...John Shepley...