But neighbors are not satisfied.
"We are very disturbed by all this, emphatically disturbed," said Peg Brown, who lives next door. She said that when residents were given the opportunity to ask Ruge questions about the blueprints, they uniformly expressed their concern.
"We went to the site viewing and found the plans thoroughly appalling. I've been watching the construction since last summer, and now many neighbors are exercised and are writing letters to the Historical Commission," she said.
After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1890, William James, the brother of novelist Henry James, began first teaching at Harvard College as the first professor in relatively new field of psychology.
Though he was a pioneer in the field, his intense and varied interests shifted dramatically to the workings of human reasoning.
James became a highly influential 19th-century pragmatist philosopher. He coined the term "stream of consciousness" to refer to the sometimes disjointed narrative of thoughts and desires that form human cognition.
His many writings on psychology and philosophy influenced such literary giants as John Keats, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and D.H. Lawrence.