Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins late in the year of 1900, when President McKinley was ordering events in Washington, when the British were fighting the Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer...
During the war he held many honorable positions: designer of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, U. S. Shipping Board; expert with housing committee, Council of National Defense; assistant manager and acting chief Town Planning Division, U. S. Bureau of Housing and Transportation...
...member of several architectural and town planning societies, Professor Hubbard has written several publications in his field. His latest volume, "Our Cities Today and Tomorrow," tells the results of a comprehensive field study of city planning and zoning progress in the United States. It was for this purpose that he received a grant from the Harvard Milton Fund for Research...
...interest that besides regular city planning courses, the following are listed in the curriculum: in the first year, Fine Arts 1d, History of Mediaeval, Renaissance, and Modern Art; in the second year, Social Ethics 30, housing problems and the social aspects of Town Planning; and in the third year, Government 17a, Municipal Government, and Government 17b, Municipal Administration...
Whatever the material effects of the agreement may be, however, there can be little doubt that it represents the culmination of a movement long in the process of evolution which may prove to have much more than local significance in the age-old struggle between town and gown. With the industrial development of many university towns, there has inevitably sprung up a good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages...