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...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders and, though them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideal of administration into living realities," declared Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, founder at the "Silver Trowel" exercise last...
Disconcerted students, sunburnt, half-blinded, slapping mosquitoes, protecting their easels from Portuguese children, tried vainly to work eyes and ears into their pictures, complained that it was like painting with a trowel. They were embarrassed by Boston sightseers who, revolted by the "horrible, featureless, formless" shapes they painted, called them "mudheads." But they were impressed because Hawthorne seemed indifferent whether they stayed or left, spared nobody...
...rains let up for a few minutes yesterday afternoon, Lucius N. Littauer '78 patted the cement with a silver trowel to conclude the ceremonies of laying the corner stone for the Littauer Center of Public Administration...
Reaffirming his belief that democracy can be made efficient, Mr. Littauer descended to spread the mortar for the cornerstone and the photographers. "This is for history," President Conant reassured him, as he held his pose, trowel in hand, for several minutes...
Finally, Littauer will follow his speech with action, laying the cornerstone with a silver trowel specially inscribed for the occasion. Very little exertion will be required of the donor of the new Littauer Center, however, for a winch and a small derrick will swing the stone into place for the formality...