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Aside from its modern architecture-which stood out in overwhelmingly traditional Harvard Yard-the library's design was revolutionary in two other ways: It was the first library in the nation specifically for undergraduates, and students were allowed direct access to its stacks.
But its modern design, juxtaposed with the ivy-covered Wigglesworth and replacing the historic Dana-Palmer House, which was moved across the street, garnered much criticism and did not end up sparking a transformation of campus architecture, as many feared.
In a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, John C. Poland of Brookline compared the new library to a "cheese factory," lamenting the library's departure from the prior "hasty but just return to the former and better architecture" demonstrated by the recently built colonial-style Yard dorms...
Unlike some monuments that may come and go, the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture features something different. Somehow, the image of Morison up on a rocky bluff implies what Orchard Professor of Landscape and Landscape Architecture John R. Stilgoe would call an "alongshore" image.
Unlike some monuments that may come-and-go, the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture features something different. Somehow, the image of Morison up on a rocky bluff implies what Orchard Professor of Landscape and Landscape Architecture John R. Stilgoe would call an "alongshore" image.