Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amusements, occupations and freedom of action in general. When women as a whole were kept in the home and subjected to strict discipline, either by fathers and mothers or by their husbands, there was not so much difference relatively between their life at home and the life of the cloister. Time has changed all that, and girls who enter Religion now show a courage and spirit of self-sacrifice which is truly notable...
Philadelphia's second-floor galleries are a series of period rooms, christened the "Main Street of the Ages." They range from a medieval cloister to a Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt...