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...Street where he designed six windows for the Riverside Cathedral in New York City. The windows were supposed to copy the spirit of the famous delicately traced windows in the Cathedral of Chartres. These famous Grisaille windows in the best lighted church in the world were made in the XIII century and contain over 5000 figures. Goodhue succeeded admirably in this work, although the problem of reducing the scale to fit the more modest proportions of the modern church was difficult. When the windows were set in June, 1929 they evoked praise from all authorities...
...Murray" Butler was graduated by Columbia. He went off to Europe to study in Paris and Berlin, armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions a tremendous push. To them, he recalls, he was just a brash young American ? "a speck of dust." But Butler talked right up to them, made them the nucleus of his enormous collection of friendships, to which, as he grew older, he has added almost every person of national or international...
Proudest of the ex-Kings is Alfonso XIII of Spain. Though the world is welcome to the knowledge that haemophilia taints his family's blue blood, nobody must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make...
...Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 8, 11 New Lect. Hall Dr. Zipf, Sec. 10 New Lect. Hall German 18 New Lect. Hall Government 24 Sever 11 Philosophy 12b Emerson 211 Psychology 11 Emerson 211 Romance Philology 6 Emerson 211 Sociology 6 Emerson 211 Sociology 15 Emerson 211 MONDAY, JANUARY 25 (XIII) Anthropology 2 Memorial Hall Chemistry B Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry 6 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chinese 3 Sever 30 Classical Archaeology 1a Sever 30 Comparative Philology 1a Sever 30 Economics A Mr. Anderson, Sec. I. K Memorial Hall Mr. Arthur, Sec. H Memorial Hall Mr. Brown, Sec. Q Memorial Hall Mr. Crane...
...Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 8, 11 New Lect. Hall Dr. Zipf, Sec. 10 New Lect. Hall German 18 New Lect. Hall Government 24 Sever 11 Philosophy 12b Emerson 211 Psychology 11 Emerson 211 Romance Philology 6 Emerson 211 Sociology 6 Emerson 211 Sociology 15 Emerson 211 MONDAY, JANUARY 25 (XIII) Anthropology 2 Memorial Hall Chemistry B Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry 6 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chinese 3 Sever 30 Classical Archaeology 1a Sever 30 Comparative Philology 1a Sever 30 Economics A Mr. Anderson, Sec. I, K Memorial Hall Mr. Arthur, Sec. H Memorial Hall Mr. Brown, Sec. Q Memorial Hall Mr. Crane...