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  Gasson confidential - BCM - Fall 2002
Gasson's invitation to "garnish" the just-dry plaster of Gasson Hall, Schroen was greeted as a celebrity whose "warm artistry," noted the student magazine The Stylus, would show to good effect "under the softened light shed through the stained glass windows" that were planned for Gasson 100.
In the left background of the painting, the silhouette of BC's Gasson Hall is on the horizon in the company of the cathedrals of Rheims, Canterbury, and Notre Dame.
While it's commonly believed that BC students occupied Gasson Hall in protest of the war in Vietnam, in fact, the occupation ("by a small but peaceful group of dissidents," according to the Heights) that began on April 13, 1970, was driven by mundane concerns.
bcm.bc.edu /issues/fall_2002/ft_gasson.html   (1564 words)

  
 Boston College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1907, newly-installed President Thomas I. Gasson, SJ, determined that BC's cramped, urban quarters in Boston's South End were inadequate and unsuited for significant expansion.
Gasson University and Fenwick University were also considered, though in the end fierce alumni opposition and a highly critical editorial in The Heights closed the debate.
Gasson Hall, BC's signature building, is credited for the typology of dominant Gothic towers in subsequent campus designs, including those at Princeton University's Graduate College (Cleveland Tower, 1913 to 1917), at Yale University (Harkness Tower, 1917 to 1921), and at Duke University (Chapel Tower, 1930 to 1935).
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 @BC » Boston College Webcams
Gasson Quadrangle, at the heart of the Middle Campus, teems with students during the day, and its trees are often festooned with event banners, most made from bedsheets.
This webcam is mounted on the south side of Gasson Hall, which opened in 1913 and was Boston College's first building on the Chestnut Hill campus.
The right edge of the quad is bordered by Lyons Hall, which opened in 1951 and is home to the fl studies program and academic departments for music, Romance languages and literatures, and Slavic and Eastern languages.
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 Campus Guide - Boston College
Named in honor of Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, SJ, president of Boston College from 1907 to 1914, and founder of the Chestnut Hill campus.
Gasson Hall is located in the center of the Middle Campus across from the Admission Office in Devlin Hall.
Born in 1859 in Kent, England, Thomas Gasson was raised as a member of the Church of England.
www.bc.edu /offices/historian/resources/guide/gasson   (283 words)

  
 Boston College
It moved to then-rural Chestnut Hill, on the site of the former Lawrence farm, where ground was broken on June 19, 1909 for the construction of Gasson Hall.
Gasson, known at the time as the Recitation Building, opened in March 1913.
Though incorporated as a University from its beginning, Boston College did not begin to fill out the dimensions of its University charter until the 1920s, with the inauguration of the Summer Session, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law School and the Evening College.
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 Tour de BC - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The starting point of the tour is Devlin Hall, the home to the SAP and the place where all the admissions directors do the majority of their work.
Upon entry into gothic-style Gasson Hall, the University's signature building, students walk into the ornate rotunda featuring the neoclassical statue of "St. Michael defeating Satan." At this point, tour guides explain the Jesuit mission of BC.
It is here that Cushing Hall is pointed out and sighs of relief are let out after hearing the stories of how friendly and helpful the people in the Infirmary are.
www.bcheights.com /news/2005/05/02/Features/Tour-De.Bc-945743.shtml   (1088 words)

  
 STUDENT COLLEGE: Boston College; www.students.net
Publication of its design in 1909--and praise from influential American Gothicist Ralph Adams Cram--helped establish Collegiate Gothic as the prevailing architectural style on American university campuses for much of the 20th Century.
Gasson Hall, BC's signature building, is credited for the typology of dominant Gothic towers in subsequent campus designs, including those at Princeton (Cleveland Tower, 1913-1917), Yale (Harkness Tower, 1917-1921), and Duke (Chapel Tower, 1930-1935).
More recent campus development signals a return to Maginnis & Walsh's Collegiate Gothic designs, as reflected in the renovations of Fulton Hall (1997) and Higgins Hall (2002), and in the construction of Campanella Hall (2003) and the St Ignatius Gate Residence Hall (2004).
www.students.net /studentcollege/bostoncollege.asp   (905 words)

  
 Music School
Gasson Hall is located on the Boston College Chestnut Hill Campus.
Vanserg Hall is located at 25 Francis Street, Cambridge, MA, near the Harvard Divinity School.
Vanserg is on the left and is a low brown building on the far side of a parking lot, with a long wheel-chair ramp running across the front of the building.
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 @BC » Boston College Webcams
This camera is mounted on the roof above the entrance to O’Neill Library, which was dedicated in 1984 with a speech on the plaza by its namesake, then-Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr.
Visible at the left, across the wide steps, is Devlin Hall, home of the McMullen Museum of Art, undergraduate admission office, and the departments of fine arts and geology and geophysics.
To the right is Gasson Hall, or the “Tower Building,” Boston College’s signature structure and the first building to be erected (1913) on what had been a 31-acre gentleman’s farm.
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 Boston College Front Row - Four Cultures of the West
O’Malley, currently on the faculty of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, is a former holder of Boston College’s Gasson Chair.
Franco Mormando, the chair of Boston College’s department of Romance languages and literatures, introduces the book, which takes as its framework four "cultures," or styles of thought, employed throughout Western and in particular Christian history: the prophetic, academic, humanistic, and artistic.
Three scholars then respond to the book from the vantage points of their respective disciplines: Boston College history professor Lawrence Wolff; current Gasson Chair James Keenan, SJ, of Boston College’s theology department; and Louise Rice of New York University’s fine arts department.
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 Boston College Front Row - The Rights of Priests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
James F. Keenan, SJ, holds the Gasson Chair at Boston College and is also a professor at the Weston School of Theology.
He was a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the revision of the ethical and religious directives for Catholic health care institutions, and a group leader of the U.S. surgeon general’s taskforce on responsible sexual conduct.
Sponsor(s): Gasson Chair; The Church in the 21st Century Initiative
frontrow.bc.edu /program/keenan   (161 words)

  
 The Story of Baldwin and Baldwin Jr. ::
It was a brisk autumn morning when a nest was found in the top of Gasson Hall.
Sometimes they are called on to generate extra enthusiasm, excitement and support during big moments of the game.
With their home perched high atop of Gasson Hall they are given a distinct advantage.
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
By the time J. Donald Monan, SJ assumed the presidency on September 5, 1972, BC was approximately $30 million in debt, its endowment totaled just under $6 million, and faculty and staff salaries had been frozen during the previous year.
Gasson Hall, BC’s signature building, is credited for the typology of dominant Gothic towers in subsequent campus designs, including those at the Princeton University Graduate School (Cleveland Tower, 1913 to 1917), at Yale University (Harkness Tower, 1917-1921), and at Duke University (Chapel Tower, 1930-1935).
Other BC libraries include dedicated facilities for the schools social work and education, an undergraduate library on the Newton Campus (nicknamed “the morgue” both because of its absolute silence and its location in the former crypt of Trinity Chapel), and a geophysics library at the Weston Observatory.
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 Upcoming.org: Adrienne Rich -- poetry reading at Gasson Hall (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)
Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you.
Tuesday, April 25, Gasson 100, Boston College, 7:30 p.m.
Adrienne Rich, one of our country's most distinguished and influential poets, has published nearly twenty volumes of poetry.
upcoming.org /event/73192   (302 words)

  
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BOSTON COLLEGE-In this colorful sea- son of the year, Boston College has appropriately named its festivities to- night at Gasson Hall "The Autumn Frolic." You and your date are wel- come to enter info this world of autumn atmosphere for only $1.50.
Seifer Hall is the site for a free concert of old music at 8:15.
The music is supplied by three world famous art- ists playing the harpsichord, viola de grmba, (a large instrument similar to a cello held between the knees) and recorder (a wooden flute).
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Walk west to the center of campus; this is less than a 5-minute walk.
Look for the bell tower; this is Gasson Hall.
The meeting will be held in Irish Hall on the main floor of Gasson.
www.cvworkingfamilies.org /downloads/BostonForumDirections.doc   (91 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Boston College Department of Physics Colloquim Gasson Hall, Room 305 ``Superfluidity in 3He: The Discovery through the Eyes of a Graduate Student" Dr.
Douglas Osheroff Stanford University Coffee served at 3:45p.m., Higgins Hall, Room 354 Thursday, September 9, 1999 Thursday, September 9, 1999, 4:15 p.m.
John L. Callas NASA Refreshments in Kipp Library, Robinson Hall, Rm 251 at 3:00pm ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the September 12-September 18 calendar is Tuesday, September 7, 1999 at 11:00 a.m.
www.het.brown.edu /seminars/bapc/old/1999/99-08-30.txt   (277 words)

  
 Boston College Magazine » Winter 2006 » Linden Lane » Satellite
The three sixth graders sitting at the “Gasson” table have earned points for raising their hands, making eye contact when they speak, helping their neighbors, and cleaning up after activities.
In KIPP schools, each homeroom is named for its teacher’s alma mater; over the course of a day at Fullerton’s school, the students in her BC homeroom will visit several other “colleges,” including Washington University and the University of Wisconsin, for instruction in various subjects.
The “scoreboard”—a dry-erase whiteboard with the Boston College logo—hangs beneath a framed photo of Gasson Hall on a support pole in the middle of the classroom; on this day, the Gasson table is in first with 15 points, Alumni is in second with 12, and Conte is holding third with a respectable nine.
bcm.bc.edu /issues/winter_2006/linden_lane/satellite.html   (860 words)

  
 Thomas Oboe Lee
Premiere: October 25, 1998, in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA Tunesmith...
Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Largo: Canção de amor
Premiere of revised version: March 29, 2004 in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts.
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 Boston College
Spread over 116 acres, the college campus is one of the earliest examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture in North America.
Gasson Hall, named after Boston College President Thomas I. Gasson, and Devlin Hall, which is home to the McMullen Museum of Art, are some of the prominent sections in the campus.
In addition, there are eight libraries featuring more than 200,000 government documents, manuscripts, and archival materials.
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 Thomas Oboe Lee
Comidas Típicas Brasileiras" for solo marimba in Gantner Concert Hall at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Boston premiere of "Hancock Shaker Village" by Deborah Leath Rentz and the Hawthorne String Quartet in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Deborah Leath Rentz and the Hawthorne String Quartet premiere "Tantric Psalms" (1997, rev. 1999) in Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
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 It's All Swing! - Love Dogs at Boston College Swing Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gasson Hall - the Irish Room (Gasson 100)
Cross the street, take a right into the campus, walk along the street, past the bus stop, until you see a set of stairs going up to your right.
Gasson Hall is the one to your right with the big steeple, directly up the plaza steps from the library.
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 Progressive Revelations 4/11/00: A Gross Encounter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While walking in front of O'Neill, the parents of a potential BC student asked me where Gasson Hall was.
Actually, I said, "Please, oh please, finish your soda and then put down the match!" Wait, I'm not going anywhere with this.
It was a good idea for Dining Services to give the name "BeansÂ… CreamsÂ… Dreams" to the little hut in front of Lower Dining Hall.
www.progressiverevelations.com /4-11-00.html   (754 words)

  
 Breaking the Barriers | UGBC.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The 'Have a Ball' themed event, will take place on December 1st, a Thursday, in the historic Gasson Hall beginning at 6pm and concluding at 10pm.
This year's Ball promises to be better than ever, and tickets, which go on sale November 28th, are sure to sell out fast.
The Breaking the Barriers Ball is a co-sponsored event by UGBC, The Office of Residential Life, The O'Connell House, and the Residence Hall Association.
ugbc.org /breakit   (647 words)

  
 Boston colleges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Members of the Hall of Fame are marked.
We look forward to working with Boston College to create another.
View of Gasson Hall of Boston College boston colleges.
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 Stoker Undead Conference Program
If you have any questions or concerns during the conference, please contact the organizers (we will be wearing nametags), Dr.
Saturday, November 8: 8:30-9:00 AM Gasson Hall Rotunda
Coffee, tea, and fruit breads available in Gasson Hall Rotunda, sponsored by the History Department.
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