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Along the east waterfront of Manhattan one day in 1844, sailors and loungers beheld a startling sight. It was as if Trinity Church had skimmed down Wall Street and now was riding the waves of the harbor on a barge. Actually a seagoing House of God complete with steeple and flag, heated and lighted by stove and oil lamps, the floating phenomenon was the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour (see cut). Built by the Young Men's Church Missionary Society, it was meant to attract mariners who would never worship ashore at landlubbers' churches. The church existed...
Spring football practice, for those not engaged in other sports, begins Monday, and will continue for four weeks. Due to the late snow, it will be some time before the practice can beheld outside, so Coach Casey's men will have to share the old cage with the lacrosse and rugby squads...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue last week the curious and the acquisitive trooped to see "the first salon devoted exclusively to American handmade glass." All the glass was the product of Steuben Glass Inc., artistic subsidiary of onetime Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton's big Corning Glass Works. Visitors beheld a coruscant and cleverly lit display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers...
...Healy Building at Georgetown University in Washington went a little party of Jesuit officials one day last week. Rummaging around among half-forgotten bales and bundles they came across three small dusty wooden boxes which they lugged out to the light to open. Inside each box the Jesuits beheld 40 or 50 brown bits of bones. In the same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening them. Out in the daylight for the first time...
...centre of the domed room Banker Hayden beheld a great dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projection instrument like a Martian death-ray machine straight out of an early Wells novel. A packed audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse...