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...next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...
With Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, scheduled for speedy demolition, artists, architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
Than His Worship Sir Alfred Louis Bower, Lord Mayor of London and His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster,* there are no better Roman Catholics in all Britain. Yet, mirabile dicta, both declined to attend, last week, a meeting of the Catenian? Association in London. The reason was quite simple?on the program, the toast to Pope Pius XI preceded the toast to King George...
...Roman Catholic Church suffers no compromise on this question. America, Jesuit weekly, printed an article which concluded: "So it is that notice is served upon America that the 'detestable thing' for which God slew Onan is to be worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger...
...Roman Empire prepared the way for the gospel by disseminating international culture. "It was this civilization that created the Catholic Church and died in giving birth...