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...edifice does not quite accord with the architect's specifications. Only half the children can be taught in the primary schools which remain, and they only half-taught, without pencils, paper, shoes or soup. The others, running about in bands of hoodlums, pick up their education and their food from the streets. There are but five universities in Russia; one is headed by an ex-convict, while in all of them underfed and ragged professors attend cold lecture-rooms bundled in overcoats and mittens...
...Coolidge has probably had wider experience than any other architect in the country in the arrangement of institutional buildings, since he has designed the arrangement of structures at Leland Stanford University, the Chicago Art Institute, the Medical School group in Pekin, China, the buildings of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, in addition to the Harvard Medical School and the Freshman Dormitories...
...Metropolitan Museum. The site of Sardis is called by Sir William Ramsay "the most promising ground for archæological work in the world." The city has been buried and preserved by an earthquake-as Pompeii by a volcano. The material received is described by Thomas Hastings, New York architect, as " the most magnificent material which has come to the United States out of Asia Minor...
...constructed for Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Nine acres of ground facing Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, one mile from the Loop, will be converted into $10,000,000 worth of buildings and campus, and will constitute the downtown division of the university. James Gamble Rogers is the architect. He designed the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University...
...drawings submitted were judged yesterday afternoon by Professor J. S. Pray '95, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, of the School of Landscape Architecture, Mr. Percival Gallagher, Professor J. W. Gregg, In charge of Instruction in Landscape Architecture at the University of California, and Mr. S. C. Smith, landscape architect of Providence...