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Announcement of a slight change in the course of study for History 1 was made yesterday by P. P. Cram '15, instructor in History...
...given out with a book dealing on the artistic life of the century. The pupil will receive with the prints a short sheet of explanation which will not attempt to tell specific things about the individual pictures, but will give a general idea of art and the times. Cram pointed out that history at this time was more a history of the revival of art than a political one. "The average history course," he said, "fails to recognize this and devotes the time to general history. We have tried to give more attention to this artistic side...
When beauteous young Nilla Cram Cook, recent U. S. initiate to Mahatma Gandhi's sisterhood, went to worship in the Hindu Temple at Dwarka, out rushed crowds of native worshippers. Priests wailed that the temple had been "polluted." After a 24-hour interval and a purification ceremony costing $75, devotions were resumed...
...Cram has said of him: "I can honestly say that as an abstract type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that...
Goodhue studied at Harvard several years before his death in 1931 but never took a degree. When he was 16 years of age, Ralph Adams Cram, famous Boston architect, took an interest in his work. While he was working in a draughtsman's office, he did his first work in stained glass when he designed a set of 36 medallions in glass for Teacher's College of Columbia University. Soon after he was allowed to submit a design for the 13-foot rose window in the Sacred Heart Dominican Church in Jersey City, N. J., and won the competition...