Word: monasticism
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Seven members of the staff of the Harvard School of Architecture will go abroad this summer for research work in Europe while three are following out work in this country. Two of these men, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, and Professor S. F. Hamblin, have been granted sabbatical leave for...
Assistant Professor K. J. Conant '15 will again go abroad under a Guggenheim Fellowship, to continue his study of the Monastic buildings and church at Cluny. Permission for excavating the ruins is practically assured by the French government, and the expedition is being financially backed by the Medieval Academy of...
Through the frost-bleared windows of the St. Bernard hospice,* 8,000 feet up in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side...
One of the superstitions of the public is that college professors lead sheltered, if not monastic lives. This is one of the great weaknesses of our educational system today; it is so arranged that its scholars cannot help giving an impression of aloofness from the troubles of the outside world...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing...