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LATER BUILDINGS OF THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY 443 new building was to rise. The site for it had been chosen many years before. It was to stand north of Haskell Oriental Museum, facing Kent Chemical Laboratory across the central quadrangle, thus completing Harper Court. The University authorities believed in the cultural influence of architecture. William Morris said in 1883: There are many places in England where a young man may get as good book learning as in Oxford: not one where he can receive the education which the loveliness of the gray city used to give. It was the hope of the builders of the gray city on the Midway Plaisance that the passing of years among its beautiful structures might increase intelligence, refine taste, and develop character, and thus minister to the highest culture.