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...enlightened moment the Corporation designated Elmwood as the residence of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and promised to spare no expense in restoring the house to its original elegance. Certainly, there was much to restore. Elmwood's owner until 1962 had been Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, widow of a Harvard professor of Fine Arts and a strong-willed woman who brooked no meddling with her crumbling mansion. Shunning modern comforts, she lived by 19th Century candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared...
After Lowell died in 1891, Elmwood remained with his heirs, until 1925 when A. Kingsley Porter, a student of medieval architecture, purchased the house. In the same year Porter became William Door Boardman Professor at Harvard, and held his gradute classes in his private library on the top floor of Elmwood. After Porter's death in 1933, Mrs. Porter kept the door of the house open to students and Faculty friends. Reportedly, she was a generous but demanding hostess who often summoned her young guests to the somber music room and made them give good accountings of themselves. The music...
...house; Elbridge Gerry staying up into the late hours, poring over maps by candlelight and contorting electoral districts into weird configurations; James Russell Lowell leading lively discussions in the sitting room, gazing out the window from time to time at the horse chestunt tree he raised from seed; A. Kingsley Porter holding seminars in Fine Arts high on the third floor; Mrs. Porter interviewing visitors to her gloomy mansion and fending off the sewer installers; Franklin Ford smoking his pipe behind the desk that was once a dining room table; and, surely, future Deans supervising Faculty affairs from the 18th...
...Philip, is at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. But what ever happened to Whistler's Grandmother? Sleuths found the answer just in time for Mother's Day. When he was doing the family portraits. James McNeill Whistler never got around to his maternal grandmum, Mrs. Martha Kingsley McNeill. She was painted, nonetheless, by a pair of itinerant artists from Connecticut, and the 19½ in.; by 24-in. oil that Grandma never liked-all those frills-now contemplates posterity at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford...
...impatient command of English, left ?8,300 ($23,240) in trust to help eliminate phonetic vagaries from the English alphabet. Characteristically, he suggested that the best way to do it would be to scrap the whole thing and start afresh, and the prizewinner, a devoted English phonetist named Kingsley Read, did just that. The results of his work have just been released by Penguin Books: a trial edition of Androcles and the Lion, Shaw's famous dramatic spoof of early Christians and Romans, with the English alphabet version on one side and the new Shaw-Read alphabet version opposite...