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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Medical School was started by Dr. John Warren '71, and the raised pews of the Chapel made an almost perfect amphitheatre for him for nineteen years. In 1802 the chapel was divided into two stories with a staircase well added on the East or Yard side to reach the second floor. At the same time, the curious brick porch with a crenellated top seen in old engravings, was put up at the West end. The first floor was composed of two damp, ill-lighted rooms for chemical lectures and laboratory work, while the upper floor was used for anatomical...
...bills of 1744. The arched windows, shown in many drawings and paintings of the Chapel, were much shorter, with a recessed brick panel beneath them, and had smaller panes of glass, five panes wide, and larger muntins in the sash--as was typical of the period. The rear of East end was without the duplicated Holden Arms, added only recently...
...interior, according to bills and contemporary writers was quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which...
...Tammany's delegation in the House for years. There he was a member of the potent Ways & Means Committee, a close crony of Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner. A devout Catholic and devoted family man, he spent every week-end in Manhattan in his brownstone house on East 68th Street near Third Avenue. His Congressional career ended in 1929 when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to New York's Supreme Court...
...toughest decisions of his career Justice Carew had no one to help him make up his mind because he alone had heard all the evidence with impartiality. But the doughty Justice felt equal to the task. When an East Side mother turned up with 300 signatures to "An Humble Appeal to Give This Mother to Her Child" he barked: "If she brings it to me I'll make her eat it with catsup...