Word: crams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of Colonel John pain. He had direct communication with the White House by telephone whenever he desired it. His physician, Albert W. Cram of Bridgewater, Vt., has visited him several times a week, going by sleigh or snow motor over the miles of snow-covered roads to Plymouth, where the snow now lies about four feet deep. Recently the Colonel arranged to lease his sugar lot, because he will be unable to harvest the maple sugar this year since he has lost the use of his legs. The sugar bush, known as "Lime Kiln Lot," because...
...religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent's* symbolic series of world religious history on the walls of the Boston Public Library is almost everywhere considered among the best of modern religious work.† At present Architect Ralph Adams Cram is working on a design for a sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor...
...Even the Medieval Church felt the incongruity of such [mundane] decorations and invented the solemn theory that the carved grotesquery (gargoyles, dragons, animals and devils) was intended to represent evil spirits turned by divine power into stone. But it is inconceivable that any such theory can justify Mr. Cram's design. If the plea is that the pugilists and the jockeys have been turned into stained glass by an angry God, it is rather hard on sports. If the plea is that churchmen play billiards and shoot at pigeons, it is superfluous. They do, and they do many other...
...Economics 41 Harvard 2 English 1 Sever 5, 6, 7, 8 Fine Arts 1f Robinson Hall Fine Arts 2c Fogg Lect. Rm. Geology 17 Emerson D German 1a Sec. I, II Sever 35 German 21 Sever 23 Government 19b Sever 17 History B Harvard 2 History 1 Mr. Cram, Sects. 1, 18 and conf. sect. Memorial Hall Mr. Gratwick, Sect. 9 and conf. sect. Memorial Hall Mr. Graves, Sects. 2, 17 and conf. sect. Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Hopper, Sects. 7, 10 and conf. sect. Emerson D Mr. Kates, Sects. 3, 14 and conf. sect. New Lect. Hall Mr. Parkman...
Into this paradise stepped a group of women. There were Mrs. John Jay White, Mrs. Henry Villard (wife of the journalist-financier Henry Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, famed abolitionist, mother of Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation), Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, Mrs. Edward Thomas and many another. None of the ladies brought her children or any other children...