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Since in the French mind Love is the opposite of Death, the Widow Joffre commissioned Architect Henri Laffaillée to build a Temple of Love, suggested that he copy the one at Versailles of which amorous French kings made such good...
...Long, now Louisiana's loud Senator (TIME, May 16 et ante) contributed: "I believe that this was one of the buildings for whose construction I was charged with the larceny of about a million dollars. As a matter of fact, the architect's estimate kept going up and I had to 'take' about two millions."- He promised ex officio that "there is not going to be anything but friendly relations between the medical schools of Tulane and L. S. U. . . . The Governor . . . sits on the boards of both institutions...
...officers representing other departments of the United States government, are, ex-officio, members of the Commission. The three or four other members are appointed by the President from the ranks of leaders in the professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. F. L. Olmstead '94, of Brookline, landscape architect, is at present a member of the Commission...
...three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow had him interred in the Episcopal pile. George Dewey, Henry Vaughan (Cathedral architect), Bishop Satterlee and his successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press. The delicate matter of arranging interments is in the hands of the Cathedral Executive Committee, who are empowered...
Dean Bratenahl lives near the Cathedral, spends most of his time there. His wife is the Cathedral's landscape architect. On the slope of Mount Saint Alban to the south of the Cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, open to the public. Here are Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, collected with the aid of George Grey Barnard. Nearby are box bushes, ancient and costly, brought from Virginia. Mrs. Bratenahl plans the planting, often gets donations from ladies who are pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross...