Word: architects
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Physical Laboratory will probably not be occupied for a year and a half. Work will be begun on the foundations in the spring. The architect, Mr. Shaw, is now at work on the plans...
...progress of work upon the new Law School building is watched with some interest by those students who look forward to studying within its walls. The walls are finished as far as the second floor, and well fulfil the promise of elegance made by the architect's description of the building published last spring. The combination of light and dark stone in the east and west facades is unique. A large tablet has been built into the east end for an inscription. The lecture rooms have already assumed a form from which their size and convenience may be judged...
...many years before our Law School becomes admittedly the foremost institution of its kind in the country. The sketch of the plans for the new building of the school, which we present today, has been carefully prepared for the HARVARD HERALD from the plans in the hands of the architect, Mr. Richardson, and will, we hope, afford to our readers a clear idea of the appearance, both inside and out, which the new quarters of the school will present when completed...
...cannot begin to accommodate the number desiring to use it. The corporation in vain asked for funds, and urged the necessity of a new building, paid in January, 1881, the corporation of Harvard College accepted the gift of $100,000 to build a new law school. Mr. Richardson, the architect, has been at work upon the plans since that time. A great deal of difficulty was experienced before the final plans were approved and accepted, owing to the peculiar needs of the school, and desire of the donor to make it the most complete and elegant structure of its kind...
...architect is certainly to be congratulated upon the external appearance of the building. Indeed he has most happily succeeded in uniting the appearance of a memorial building with the grandeur of a school designed for the student of the law. But in his desire to make the outside imposing he has not neglected the convenience and comfort of those who are to use it, so that after the 1st of September, 1883, the Harvard law student will no longer be obliged to point out to the visitor the diminutive Dane Hall as the law school of America's largest university...