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...John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge, but bears embarrassing resemblance to the cathedral as redesigned and now being built by Ralph Adams Cram...
Although undergraduate tutoring bureaus appear in some form on most sizable U. S. campuses, they are actually characteristic only of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, where students have enough distractions and enough money to make them a paying convenience. They are often found running in conjunction with full term cram schools which prepare athletes for college...
...appearance of the Student Council questionnaire officially opens the long-expected investigation into the subject of private tutoring schools. Hitherto the whole subject has been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct...
...younger generation, it would seem, has no intention of breaking records in the matter of being graduated with the least possible amount of studying, even though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...
...Mary chapel is to be a memorial to Father Burton's 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...