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...Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame...
...sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom...
Under the auspices of the School of City Planning, William S. Parker '99, Boston architect and planning commissioner, will lecture in Robinson Hall at 11 o'clock this morning on "Planning for Housing...
...admirers of George Du Maurier will recall. is the story of an unfortunate young Englishman whose life is materially blighted and spiritually enriched by memories of a childhood romance. Separated from his inamorata at the age of 8, Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect, she the Duchess of Towers. Nudged by the coincidence that both have the same dreams at night, they fall in love once more, again with tragic consequences when Peter Ibbetson goes to jail for murder. In this crisis their faculty of "dreaming true" is convenient. Divided by day, they spend...
...Tower Court... Even without benefit of clergy Tower Court has a monastic eloquence powerful enough to cast a spell over the most sated denizen of Copley Square and the Mayfair. As if the leaded glass windows and pointed archways were not near enough the road to Rome, the architect of the citadel above Lake Waban placed in the driveway a statue in cold, gray stone, a statue of the Madonna. As he drove up the hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion...