Word: basilican
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...Civil War. Mem Hall, as it is often called, was designed by Henry Van Brunt, class of 1854, and William Robert Ware, class of 1852. The two architects were chosen to design the building after winning an architectural contest sponsored by the University. The Building, which resembles a basilican church, was designed in the shape of a cross.For more information, check out:“Harvard: An Architectural History”;“The Crimson Key Society Guidebook to Harvard University”;“Sketch of the History of Harvard College”;“Three...
...Civil War. Mem Hall, as it is often called, was designed by Henry Van Brunt, class of 1854, and William Robert Ware, class of 1852. The two architects were chosen to design the building after winning an architectural contest sponsored by the University. The Building, which resembles a basilican church, was designed in the shape of a cross.For more information, check out:“Harvard: An Architectural History”;“The Crimson Key Society Guidebook to Harvard University”;“Sketch of the History of Harvard College”;“Three...
...decline of the Franciscan order, the monks themselves were not above alleviating their holy poverty by doing a little de-accessioning. They were apparently following their founder's injunction by selling what they had and giving the proceeds to the poor (themselves). All in all, what remains of the basilican treasury is only a fragment of its earlier glories. So one should not, perhaps, expect too much from this show. In any case, it bears only the slightest proportional relation to the bewildering and dense variety of works of art that are to be seen in the whole fabric...
...Coughlin took a doctorate in philosophy at 20 at the University of Toronto. He traveled three months in Europe as there debated a career in the church, politics, sociology. A favorite teacher persuaded him to the first. For this he spent four hard years of preparatory work under the Basilican Order. William Leonard was a brisk Republican lawyer with a Yale degree Pargo the same year Father Coughlin ventured out priesthood as instruction in English at Assumption College (Ontario). That was in 1917. By 1936, Candidate Lemke had deserted the Republicans and received and support of a radio priest...
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