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This year, housed in a five-story Georgian building on fashionable East End Avenue, Miss Chapin's school has 45 teachers, 380 students aged 6 to 18. Though in 1932 she relinquished her position as headmistress to her partner and housemate since 1911, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, sister of the 12th Baron Fairfax, Miss Chapin's ideas and personality have continued to dominate the school almost as strongly as ever. Even her passion for historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost...
That definitely settled the date, except that in the next century the Georgian calendar was introduced and the entire situation is scrambled by Old Style and New Style dates. Historians, Professor Morison says, just ignore that
...Church of St. Joseph by Boehm, a group of four gargoyles by the sculptor Hensler, chalices and patenae by Michaelis, several original pieces by Barlach, a copper crucifix by Hans Wissel, reminiscent of the crucifix at Isenheim. Equally on exhibition is Cantabrigicus Abderitus, squinting, wrinkling his simian Georgian brow, murmuring "how HORRIBLE...
...achieve his end President Lowell laid well-marked paths through the maze of Harvard's free elective system. He introduced tutors and comprehensive examinations. He drew freshmen from their scattered lodgings into the communal life of Georgian dormitories near the Charles River. Finally in 1928 a gift of $13,000,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness allowed him to fulfill a longtime dream. By splitting his unwieldy body of upperclassmen into seven residential Houses he hoped to restore the fellowship of student and student, student and teacher, which small, oldtime Harvard had possessed...
...this morning's CRIMSON, Mr. William I. Nichols makes the suggestion that Holden Chapel be restored to its original state by the time of Harvard's tercentennial celebration in 1936. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison puts forth the more ambitious proposal that the Georgian beauty of Harvard Hall as it existed in the eighteenth century be restored by means of rather extensive alterations. While the latter project might be ideal, it would undoubtedly be more expensive, in addition to depriving the College of much-needed class rooms...