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the undergraduates ^at the Institute whose families had made sacrifices to give their boys the opportunity to graduate from the Ill. Inst of Tech. and study under the great European Architect. They maintained that they never saw Mies and that, so far as he was concerned, the curriculum consisted in the drawing of brick bonds - not just a few bricks to indicate the system, but yards of them.

The disciples ^however saw only unenlightenment and a ^back country survival of the Victorian love of fake towers, battlements and pergolas in the messages of protest sent by the graduates and the stains on the concrete whiteness of the Promontory building seemed crossed outto mecrossed out "just one of those things," and both factors encouraged me in the conviction that innovators in the arts or the sciences need not, and should not look to the general public for understanding and support. It was the obligation ^and privilege's of innovation in other fields to supply the background for such advances. As for the students