Main Menu · Search ·Current Issue ·Contact ·Archives ·Centennial ·Letters to the Editor ·FAQs
Scribble scribble, tap tap. As Summer School students improved their minds, construction workers refreshed the campus. Building projects ranged from great (renovation of the the Law School Library in Langdell Hall) to small (touched-up trim for Harvard Hall). The height of the season was the restoration of the Lowell House bell tower. Flint Born photographed the scaffolding for this magazine from below. The Boston Globe's intrepid David L. Ryan scaled the heights to a 206-foot vantage point for a panoramic shot that dominated the paper's front page. Built in 1929, the tower carried many layers of lead paint, some of it over rotten wood. The paint came off and the rot came out at a cost of about $750,000. A quarter of that went for the junglegym of staging. Philip Bisaga, examining the copper weathervane, is manager of mechanical and structural maintenance. Says he, "I really like the high jobs."