1840 engraving by George Girdler Smith1879 woodcut from The American CyclopædiaStereoscopic imageImage by John P. Soule (1827–1904)Gore HallUnder demolition, 1913Seal of the City of Cambridge (designed 1846 by Harvard President Edward Everett) showing Gore HallPlaque on north facade of Widener Library
When, in 1846, Harvard President Edward Everett was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, he made Gore one of two icons (the other being the Washington Elm) encircled by the motto Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora. "It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.'"[1]
When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library,[2] its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory then under construction and now part of Winthrop House.[3]
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^Cambridge Historical Commission. . City of Cambridge. Archived from the original on May 16, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
^Harvard University (1949). Education, bricks and mortar: Harvard buildings and their contribution to the advancement of learning. Harvard University. p. 29. ISBN9780674238855.
Harvard University. Library (1905). An Index Guide to the Shelf Classification of the Harvard College Library ... library. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
Cutter, C.A. (1869). The New Catalogue of Harvard College Library. The North American Review. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
Kent, A. (1983). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Taylor & Francis. p. 328. ISBN9780824720353. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
External linksedit
"Round Point Pinnacle at Appleton Farms". 25 May 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Text gives locations of three other pinnacles salvaged from Gore Hall.
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