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...John's Chapel, and was used as a vestry room. The chapel as portrayed by the photo forms an alcove flanked on either side by two huge gothic pillars. Between the pillars, and occupying the center of the background, is a large altar, backed by a beautifully decorated stained window. The altar is the gift of Mr. R. W. Hickox '72, who presented it in 1907 when the chapel was repaired and dedicated anew to the memory of John Harvard. The altar marks the spot where Harvard was baptised, and where his father lies buried...
Much of the beauty of the chapel is due to the large stained window, the work of John LaFarge of New York, which occupies the center of the picture in Widener. The window is divided into six panels, three upper ones and three lower ones. The lower set of panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater...
...polo player, onetime owner of a string of celebrated racehorses, one time part owner of the Cincinnati Base ball Club. Died. Mrs. Katherine Bowlker, 66, sister of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, of Amy Lowell, poet; in Boston, of a fall from a fifth-floor hotel window. She was married twice, her first husband being a first cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Died. Thomas W. Lawson, 67, frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made-and lost...
...their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have been artists. Seven hundred idle, able, rowdy, snobbish, gay, amused, determined, casual, dismal Harvard lads (as motley as only as assembly of U. S. students can be) stared up at a window in Langdell Hall...
...Wisconsin, meanwhile, were being enacted scenes far less sane, less normally boyish than the spectacle of 700 exuberant students cheering on a winter day under the window of their overseer. Rapine, carnival, all-night carousals, drinking-brawls, Babylonian revels?these said the press, have been going forward at the University of Wisconsin. Sorely, sorely, if the press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed...