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...architect of Wren Hall at William and Mary College...
...sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden...
...greatest honors which can be achieved by an American architect, was conferred upon Professor Charles Wilson Killam, a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture, when he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture at its recent convention in Washington...
...addition to his position on the Faculty of the School of Architecture, Professor Killam has been consulting architect for the Business School, in connection with the new buildings which are being erected on the new Business School site. Beside the Professor Killam also acted in the capacity of consulting architect for the new Dartmouth Library...
...pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift, in his mind, its pale indomitable pinnacle so beautifully that generations must inquire: "Who designed the Woolworth Building...