Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atherton of Thayer Hall and Longmeadow will head the 1944 Freshman Red Book board, it was announced last night...
...insure an early start on the Register, Atherton said, he will choose his Business Manager over the weekend, and will call out a business and advertising competition almost immediately. He expressed the hope that any interested Freshmen would drop in at Thayer 64 as soon as possible, although the formal opening of the competition will be delayed until next week...
Further changes came in the 1870's when President Eliot got under way. The construction of Thayer and Weld created a "mall" on the western side of University Hall. This mall idea had of course been used in Washington and at the University of Virginia, and another mall is now being made on the long axis between Gannett House and Mallinckrodt...
...Thayer and Weld, by cutting off the mall, created a new "Yard" to the east of University Hall between the chapel and the library. Sever was built (1878-1880) to close this on the eastern side. Robinson and Emerson beyond its form an open-sided quadrangle on Quincy Street, which is of course the English scheme previously referred to. Then President Lowell, by building Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, and the Wigglesworths, brought back the "fringe" system proposed in Bulfinch's day, so that now all of the various plan schemes are represented in the composite group on the college plot...
...before, the President had written Navy Secretary Frank Knox a tribute on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, supreme U. S. Navy strategist. Significantly the President pointed to Mahan's theories that "threats of aggression can best be met at a distance from our shores rather than on the seacoast itself...