Word: england
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Professor C. H. Moore h.'90, of the Fine Arts Department, has just returned from his tour of research and investigation in Europe. The main object of his visit was to study more thoroughly the early mediaeval monuments which show the beginnings of the so-called Gothic art of England. He has given careful attention to such important early monuments as the Norman nave of Malmesbury Abbey, St. Albans Abbey and other similar Norman works, but has occupied himself chiefly with Canterbury Cathedral as the first monument which really embodies anything of Gothic principles. Professor Moore made a direct comparison...
Harvard has entered the New England Chess Association tournament, in which five men will play matches each week with the clubs around Boston. A silver shield will be awarded to the team winning the series, and silver medals to the individual players of the winning team...
...object of Bishop Ingram's visit to this country is to attend the tercentenary of the establishment of the Church of England in America, which is now being celebrated in Richmond, V,. During his short stay in the south he has completely won the hearts of the people by his simple, unaffected manner and by his vigorous Christian words. On Sunday afternoon, when he gave his farewell address at a great open air mass meeting, fully five thousand people crowded the steps of the Capital at Richmond to hear him speak. Bishop Lawrence '71, as chairman of the house...
Bishop Ingram was born in Worcestershire, England, in 1858, and was educated at Marlborough College and at Keble College, Oxford, being graduated from the latter in 1881. He became curate at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury in 1884, and subsequently private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfiels, head of Oxford House, Benthal Green, rector of Benthal Green, rural dean of Spitalfields, cannot of St. Paul's Cathedral, Bishop of Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London. It is as Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been...
...Smith is a member of the American Geographical Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England, in the course of this travels he has visited most of the countries of the Orient, where he has had unusual opportunities for acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...