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This ratio of art and mechanics is exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five...
...Interior M. Poullet
...Author. Ahmed Hassanein Bey, a very great gentleman in Egypt, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, won fame as a fencer in the University. He served in the Ministry of the Interior at Cairo, is now in the diplomatic service. King Fuad I is his friend...
Cabinet Post. It has long been the firm conviction of the Association that the educational affairs of the Nation should be elevated from their present status as a subsidiary interest of the U. S. Department of the Interior* and given into the hands of a U. S. Secretary of Education, a new (eleventh) member of the President's cabinet.f Those who propose this innovation declare that the administrative functions of the new-Department need in no way infringe upon the educational rights of individual states. They tell people who oppose it that their opposition arises from blindness...
...Philadelphia, department stores, hospitals, police cooperated with the medical authorities in establishing zones of isolation. Vaccination proceeded widely and apace. In Washington, the scare penetrated to Capitol Hill and newspaper accounts featured U. S. Senators hastening to bare their arms to the needle; Secretary of the Interior Work (who before taking office was a physician, onetime President of the American Medical Association) vaccinating himself; the President submitted quietly to the general precaution...