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...grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned for his 55th birthday, Apr. 25, 1924. On that day, the National Academy of Sciences at Washington...
...alumni is it given to be so closely brought back to the very breath of undergraduate days as will the members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, at their New York dinner. What could possibly rouse more delightful memories than once more to listen to the sage whose Monday evening gatherings in Hollis were to so many young, but not younger, spirits an inspiration and a delight? To rejoice over the appointment to the Boylston chair of the professor whose place in the undergraduate heart is and has ever been unique, will be a joyous occasion to those whose reminiscences...
...Ross Wilkins Jr., Chairman, Miss Evelyn Moss; R. S. Wright, Miss Atty Jarman: W. S. Dunckler, Miss Helen Sage; D. T. Allen, Miss Frances Thayer; H. Finney Jr., Miss Deddy Piper; J. F. Ryan Jr., Miss Nancy Miller...
...Finnish delegate caused a commotion by declaring that Chinese Tuchuns (Military Governors) produced and sold opium illicitly in order to buy illicitly munitions for their wars. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst sage, remarked...
...quite evident the moment one has shaken his hand, that what he says of a man in print means not one jot or tittle of what his eyes might say to that man when they meet. This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted...