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With one exception (Owen Wister, of Philadelphia), the Harvard Fellows demurred at Mr. Chapman's identification of their colleague with "the out spoken purpose of the Roman Church." Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, Protestant, wrote to Mr. Chapman: "Will you . . . state explicitly where and when the Roman curia, or any other official body of the Roman Catholic Church, has declared it to be its 'outspoken purpose' to control American education? . . . I do formally challenge you to show cause for making your amazing statement. For my own part, I deny it explicitly...
Last week, Mr. Chapman answered Mr. Cram: "I refer you to the history of the papacy. . . . Let us look about us. We see the Roman Catholic Church in every branch of its discipline, whether in its universities, seminaries, schools, monasteries, convents or in the parochial commands that are read aloud in its churches, openly drilling its adherents into contempt for American institutions and especially proclaiming its intention to control our education . . . With regard to the Board of Fellows of Harvard ... I call your attention to the fact that Bishop Lawrence has not yet noticed my letter...
...some time, Mrs. Wilson has been consulting with Cram & Ferguson, architects of the Cathedral, on the design of the sarcophagus. Recently, on a motor trip through New England with her brother, she called on the architects at their Boston office and accepted the final plans-a very simple marble tomb with a crusader's sword lying in relief upon its cover...
High schools cram students with useless English...
...patronesses will be Mrs. D. M. Little, who is in charge of the dance, Mrs. J. T. Addison, Mrs. Robert Allen, Mrs. G. W. Cram, Mrs. C. N. Greenough, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. P. J. Sachs, and Mrs. R. deC. Ward...