Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious that a plant to afford additional facilities for indoor exercise and a swimming pool are highly desirable, with the least possible delay. The construction on a swimming pool on a site already selected is now under serious consideration...
...lack of funds or a proper building location. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Athletic Association has adequate finances which it is only too willing to devote to a pool; it has had them for some time. Moreover the plan of constructing a pool on the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium which might have conflicted with a projected chemical laboratory was abandoned in favor of a highly practical location on the bank of the Charles below the Weld Boat House. The Athletic Association and the Planning Board have needed only official sanction to begin work immediately...
...Roosevelt Memorial Association appropriated $1,000,000 for this project, invited famed architects, sculptors, landscape designers to compete in submitting designs. Entire freedom was given to the imaginations of the competitors, the one stipulation being that the memorial "shall adequately commemorate the character and significance of President Roosevelt." The site, already chosen, presents complexities. The scheme upon which the city is laid out involves two axes: the first from the Dome of the Capitol through the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial; the second a cross-axis to a terminal balancing the White House on the south. The site...
Under the august dome of the Capitol, some distance to the northeast of the Roosevelt Memorial site, other strenuous Americans are commemorated. There, upon a frieze that belts the dome 75 feet from the floor, a fresco depicts scenes from U. S. history beginning with the landing of the bold Italian adventurer, Cristoforo Colombo. Work upon this design was started long ago by Constantino Brumidi, Italian artist, carried on by Filippi Costaggini, another Italian, but suspended in 1899 and never resumed. A gap of blank wall breaks the complete circuit of the frieze...
...when with the founding of the Medical School. Harvard blossomed forth from a college into a true university, the question of a site for the new school became a burning question. To the eagle eye on Dr. John Warren of the class of 1771 through whose unwearied efforts the school had become possible the risen tiers of seats in Holden Chapel offered the nearest approach to an operating amphitheater obtainable in those lays. Thus after having served the purposes of church state, and army, Madame Holden's gift came next into the service of medicine...