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Excerpt from A Symposium on Contemporary Architecture, With Other Papers: Presented at the Sixty-Third Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects
Gentlemen of the Convention, just how this feature of the program came to be formulated, I do not know.
I have heard, of course, the excuses of Presi dent Hammond and the explanations of Mr. Butler, Chairman of the Institute's Committee on Education, and I realize that it has long been the custom of the American Institute of Architects to discuss at decent intervals the general subject of architecture. (laughter) It has heretofore been considered a safe, if not always an interesting, subject.
We have regarded our art as a noble one. There has been a sort of gentlemen' s agreement on that point, and while we have been catholic in our tastes and generous in our appreciation of historic achievement, we have felt that deep within us burns some bright ¿ame which we knew as our artistic conscience. It lighted the path of assured beauty and warned us away from the pitfalls of error. So our dis eussions in the past have been mild and schol arly and decorous.
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