Frank Miles Day

Very different [from Hardenbergh’s] was the professional task of Frank Miles Day, whose achievement lay in imparting to the newly endowed and newly erected buildings of American universities something of the touch which ancient architectural conceptions and the hand of time had conferred on the European seats of learning. The mind and the hand of men like this mean much in the task of preserving, for our own utilitarian age, the noble traditions of that older period, when beauty of form was a far more essential purpose to the builder even than practical expediency. Imbued with a love of nature and of all that was beautiful in life, his absorbing interest was always in the serious side of his profession. He had been President of the American Institute of Architects, and had received many public honors.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook