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Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last week. Kiesler had invented nothing, discovered nothing; but his artist-dream seemed hardly less logical and likely than did the skyscraper, the ocean-crossing dirigible, the hovering helicopter, 25 years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms...
...containing such statements as "The men who shout for more business in government do not realize the limitations of a democratic government. . . . Business in government would ignore the social duties of the government," discussed the memorial to Warren G. Harding, onetime Kiwanian, which has been designed by a Kiwanian architect, built by a Kiwanian construction company, erected with Kiwanian money in Vancouver, B. C. With due respect for the law, the Kiwanis decided to hold their next convention in Montreal-a choice which elicited a demonstration from the famed Montreal Kiltie bagpipers...
...last two issues of the CRIMSON for the year of 1925 will appear tomorrow and Thursday morning. The issues for each day will include copies of the 16-page Commencement Issue of the Pictorial Supplement, containing pictures of the Harvard-Yale crews and the first architect's drawing for the new Fogg Art Museum to be published...
...must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...
Born in 1871, Architect Barber was educated at Yale. Upon graduation, he took special courses at Columbia, then at the Beaux Arts, Paris, where he was the ninth U. S. student to receive a diploma. After an apprenticeship in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus...