Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kipling at 70, looking back over his career, it seemed that every card in it "had been dealt me in such a manner that I had but to play it as it came." True, he had wanted to write a big novel-something "worthy to lie alongside The Cloister and the Hearth"-but that had not been vouchsafed him. On the other hand he had written some books that he knew were good: "My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw." Friends...
...significant that President Lowell who so often said that this is the "age of advertising" should live to see Harvard's men of learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant...
...mother, Mrs. Caspar Burton of Cincinnati, who long ago gave the land for it. The main unit of the monastery, in Architect Cram's finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House in which the Fathers have been living. She was Mrs. John Lowell...
Number (1) objective fulfills the age-old cry for more contact of University professors in the world outside their academic cloister. Business men, politician, radicals, and Hearst have all at one time or another cried for it. This particular application of the idea, as Mark Twain said of always doing right, "will gratify some, and astonish the rest...
...glassing in the arches, the former cloister of the Germanic Museum was converted into a library last summer. A door was cut through the wall into the former curators' room, which is now used as an ante-chamber, and the reading room itself has been furnished in keeping with its mediseval setting. Seated at one of the large refectory tables, a full view of the garden is provided through the large arch windows...