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...dried routine. Now, the question is sometimes asked, "What is the use of it all?" In the first place it carries new ideals to the hearts of the unfortunate classes. In the second place it gives the teachers an invaluable asset to life, ability to meet and get along with all sorts and conditions of people. It is true experimentation in democracy, now being undertaken by private workers alone. But when these workers have demonstrated its good, it will become a public institution and will aid materially in the solution of social problems...
...main entrance of the building leads into a long a hall built to produce the effect of an interior cloister. Turning to the right along this hall leads to the library reference room and book-stacks. These stacks are large enough to hold the combined libraries of the Andover the combined libraries of the Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School. They are thoroughly fireproof, and lighted in the day time by skylights. Glass flooring allow this light to reach the lower floors...
...departure from the plans of previous years. James O. Rodgers '98, who will serve as head coach, will give his services absolutely without compensation. He will lay out his work very much after the way graduate coaching is conducted in England. His plan will be to mould the oarsmen along certain lines which will be a well-defined style of graduate coaching, so that the work, entirely amateur, may be continued from year to year just as football coaching has been done with uniform success for many years...
...produced a plan remarkably consistent and simple and at the same time strikingly original. The Corporation have at once accepted it and authorized him to proceed with elaborating the working plans and specifications. In this Professor Bestelmeyer will be assisted by our own Professor H. Langford Warren, who all along has taken a keen interest in the Germanic Museum and to whose intelligent and expert advice we owe much. In the absence of Professor Bestelmeyer, the supervision of the construction of the building itself is to be committed to his firm (Warren & Smith...
...shorter one stretching from Divinity avenue to Frisbie place, parallel with Kirkland street, but set back from it some 100 feet. The space between the two wings is conceived of as an ornamental court, with shrubs, statuary, and waterbasins, connected with the Museum itself by cloister-like arcades running along Kirkland street and Frisbie place. A massive tower rising at the point of junction of the two main wings holds the various parts of the design firmly together. Thus the whole structure is marked by a happy combination of diversity and unity, of picturesqueness and monumental effect...