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...architect was Professor German Bestelmeyer of Munich, who planned for a uniquely designed series of rooms including Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance specimens of architecture. The corner-stone was laid in June, 1912, but active work was not carried forward until 1914. The building was ready for the instalment of the collection in July...
...University for the Morosco Prize, offered by Oliver Morosco, theatrical producer, for the best play written by a past or present member of "English 47," Professor George P. Baker's course in playwriting at the University and Radcliffe, has been won by Thomas P. Robinson, a practicing architect of Boston...
Besides the regular students, the school also admits special students who are given a certificate upon the satisfactory completion of a certain required amount of work. These men are ordinarily men of high school training, with some years of practical experience in an architect's office, or they may be men with incomplete college education who are compelled to obtain professional training in less time than the regular students give. These specials are always fewer in number than the regular students; but those of them who have had an office training introduce an important element into the school, because their...
...profession of architecture is an attractive one on that the practitioner may use the harvest raining and experience in the different fields of activity necessary for the production of the modern building and its surroundings. Primarily, the architect must make his buildings useful and beautiful; usually, also, it must be economical, it must be safe, and in many cases, it must be a money-making project. The profession therefore offers a wide field for men who are artists, practical planners, construction experts of different kinds, and for men of executive ability in directing construction or of good judgement in real...
...Boston Sunday Herald's article in commemoration of the semi-centennial of the Museum of Fine Arts contained passages which implied that the original programs of the director and the chosen architect were inadequate, and that after their resignations, the city secured a model building, and the Museum a progressive regime. This impression would be more unfortunate, were it not that the writer's information was so inaccurate. The facts are: (1) By forcing the Director's resignation the Museum lost and New York gained one of the most distinguished men in the country, a man who has given...