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...Recommitted the Interior Department appropriation bill with instructions to reduce its total...
...that it is entirely possible to eradicate the false veneer of civilization with its unnatural inhibitions, its selfishness, petty meanness and unnatural behavior. . . . Adults can be re-educated to become as natural as little children, before civilization stamps out their true or subconscious instincts. I am satisfied that an interior life exists in all of us. a true life which will come to the surface under proper conditions...
...theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets. Photographs show excavation proceeding at night and a rivet heater. In the interior scenes shadows flicker and flare with Hogarthian exaggeration...
...Junior Common Room and the Senior Common Room in Kirkland both smack of the hotel influence in American interior decoration. With wisdom the officials have refrained from putting a raised alcove in the dining room to the services of any high table. Just off the Dining Room is the Committee Room, with its Directors table and twelve chairs, where the Coffee Pot and other organizations meet...
Everyone is familiar with the exterior of Eliot House, the result of the site which was offered for the bewilderment of the architects. Barren of foliage, and with a blank expanse of wall at one end, the court sorely needs the concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew...