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Last week a distinguished committee awarded a distinguished architect a new distinction-all of which was most to the taste of a nation in whose vocabulary this word is a favorite son. John Russell Pope was the architect. Secretary of State Kellogg, Will Hays, James R. Garfield, Lawrence Abbott, Elon H. Hooker, Arthur W. Page, Mark Sullivan, Charles D. Walcott, Irwin Kirkwood, Frederick C. Hicks, Hermann Hagedorn, were present at the meeting of the committee. The distinction was the choosing of Architect Pope's design for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial. The Association has appropriated $1,000,000 to build...
...this land, a superb 18-hole golf course has been under construction for the past two years. The perfection of the course was insured by placing the entire 700 acres at the disposal of the golf architect, M. S. J. Raynor. Play has just begun this fall on the new course...
...difficult to master that a man or woman can spend a long life at it, without realizing much more than his limitations and mistakes, and his distance from the ideal. But the main aim of my happy days has been to become a good teacher, just as every architect wishes to be a good architect, and every professional poet strives toward perfection. William Lyon Phelps in the Boston Transcript...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...