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Name three examples of the art of Cass Gilbert...
...designed the Woolworth Building?" is often asked in vain, for an architect, though eminent, does not come often enough before the public to be remembered. Cass Gilbert designed the Woolworth Building. Last week he came once more before the public by being elected President of the National Academy of Design to succeed Edwin Howland Blashfield, aged painter of murals, who refused reelection...
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1859, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cass Gilbert designed the Capitols of Minnesota, West Virginia, Arkansas, the customs house in Manhattan, the public libraries in St. Louis and Detroit, the state universities of Minnesota and Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him near-sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must...
...dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second in the 50-yard dash. The 14 points thus won between them were sufficient to win the championship for Cass. Second, Detroit Northwestern, 12 points. Third, Elmwood (Ill.), 10. Twenty-two teams of the 56 entered...
Miss Jean Elizabeth Baldwin of New Jersey, Miss Violet Burd Grubb of Burlington, N. J., Miss Rosalie Evans of Manhattan, Miss Florence Pratt of Manhattan, Miss Helen Sheldon of London, Miss Annie Laurie Warmack of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs Cass Gilbert of New York and Ridgefield, Conn. Mars. H. A. Murray of Boston, Mrs Bertrand H. Snell of New York and Washington...