Notebooks, 1897-1902.
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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957
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Shurcliff was a landscape architect who, with Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., founded the landscape architecture program at Harvard University. From the description of Notebooks, 1897-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79025322 From the guide to the Notebooks, 1897-1902., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Arthur A. Shurcliff (born Shurtleff) was educated at MIT and Harvard's Bussey Institute. He apprenticed at the Olmsted offi...
Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897
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Landscape architect. Educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1882). Eliot was instrumental in the development of the Boston Metropolitan Park system. Later, his ideas set the pattern for most American metropolitan parks. In 1892, Eliot was hired as landscape architect by the new Metropolitan Park Commission, which he had been instrumental in creating. In following years, the state legislature established a permanent commission, and implemented Eliot's recommendations for the development of a regional ...
