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...college gate will be at the entrance to the yard between Holworthy and Thayer. Mr. McKim will be the architect...
...Gallery was built to contain the Trumbull collection, and was used till 1866, when Mr. A. R. Street, of the class of 1812 at Yale, gave the present building, and the School of Fine Arts was established. This building cost $220.000, and was designed by P. W. Wright, the architect of the National Academy of design in New York...
...February Monthly opens with an article by Mr. R. S. Peabody on "Architecture as a Profession for College Graduates." Mr. Peabody describes in all its aspects the business life of an architect, and his words will be of great interest to college men who are studying for that profession, or who have not yet chosen their vocation. The writer first calls attention to the fact that "one of the most noticeable things about architecture as a profession is that it is many sided," uniting artistes taste with practical business capacity. The wide range of study necessary to an architect "would...
...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
...extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...