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Following a rendition of "Bach's "Suite in B Minor", played from the balcony which surrounds the court and by an eighteenth century ensemble, President Lowell spoke a few words in praise of the architect, Charles A. Coolidge '81. Bishop William Lawrence '71 delivered the prayer, and Professor Charles H. Grandgent '83 gave his poem. Then Mr. Coolidge presented the keys of the building to President Lowell who in turn passed them on to Mr. E. W. Forbes '95, the director. Then the Glee Club sang three selections before the audience was invited to inspect the building...
...Insull announced that already the opera's business manager and the technical director, and also Architect Ernest Robert Graham (who has been building Greater Chicago since World's Fair days) were headed for Europe to study the last words in opera-house design. And he promised the new auditorium, fully equipped and staffed to amuse 4,000 Chicagoans nightly, for about Christmas time...
What is an "architect"? The experts did not say, but unless they used the term in a most restricted sense, the profession of planning homes, offices, warehouses, golf clubs, courts, theatres, museums, station, lecture halls, factories, prisons and all the other structures required by 120 million U. S. people, is at present conducted by only 10,000 U. S. practitioners? one man to every chunk of population the size of Englewood, N. J., or Boulder, Col., or Tuscaloosa...
...course they were speaking very strictly indeed. Not every 'prentice draughtsman, not any workaday engineer, is an "architect" to the directors of the American Institute of Architects, who made this slender census estimate at the Institute's 60th convention last week in Washington...
Insisting on the distinction between a true architect and someone else, and impressing upon architects that theirs is an Art as well as a technic, were the convention keystones. To stress the Art of building, the Institute has enrolled representatives of arts with which the architect must ally his work to obtain unity of effect?sculpture, mural painting, landscape-architecture, etc. (TIME, April...