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...certain than that services of worship and preaching were a part of the routine of Harvard College from the very beginning. I am not aware, however, that a special house of worship was provided until Holden Chapel was built in 1744. When University Hall was built by the distinguished architect, Bulfinch, in 1826, provision was made for a chapel in the upper floor of that building, the portion now used for the Faculty Room. This was used until Appleton Chapel was built...
William Emerson '95 has been chosen to take charge of the Architectural Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Emerson, who is widely known in New York as an architect, after his graduation spent the following two years in the Architectural School of Columbia, studying under Professor Ware. In November, 1897, he went to Paris, where he studied three years. After working in the offices of Tubbey, York and Sawyer for two years, he branched out for himself...
...such walks! We can imagine John Harvard himself, with his hands folded, followed by students in column of file, sedately stalking by Sever, meditating the while upon the beauties of Memorial Hall. We can picture the architect who designed these walks leaning back with a malicious smile as he visualized two students arm in arm, meeting two others, and muttering fiendishly to himself, "They shall not pass...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with topographic maps of a given piece of property in a region of country estates which a landscape architect was supposed to have purchased for his own residence and for his office. The plans submitted were to include a small formal garden, pleasant informal treatment of the rest of the grounds, for convenience in use, a recreation ground for employees, and examples of interesting landscape compositions, in general pleasantly to impress visiting clients...
Behind the organization are men of great sporting prominence and the plans call for the finest structure of this kind that has ever been erected. According to the estimates of the architect, the building will cost more than $1,000,000, and will contain training facilities beside the great arena which will seat 34,500 people...