Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor of Mathematics; Bishop Carleton Hunt, Instructor in Economics; Edward Hastings Chamberlin, Assistant Professor of Economics; James Wilkinson Miller '28, Instructor in Philosophy; Michael Karpovich, Lecturer on History; Charles Washburn Putnam '11, Instructor in Government; William Ellery Sedgwick '22, Instructor in English; Theodore Spencer, Instructor in English; John Milton Potter '26, Instructor in History; Robert Durant Feild, Instructor in Fine Arts...
Those interested in pottery as well as those whose interests are purely anthropological will find the many types of household pottery of considerable interest. One quickly senses that the potter of Nuzi had a feeling for his art that was not bounded by the bit of produce he received in exchange for his ware. Certainly he was a master artisan...
...Wanderer was built in her owners' (W. H. Potter & Co.) yards in Liverpool, launched in 1891. She was the biggest sailing ship yet built, over 300 ft. long, of nearly 3,000 tons. "She was of a full model, wall-sided, rather hard in the bilge and with a flat floor, though she grew somewhat sweeter aft. Above the waterline, she was lovely. . . . She was the last achievement in sailing-ship building and rigging: nothing finer had been done, or ever was done." But her very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy...
...unknown quatrain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) came to light when an 18th Century potter's wheel was presented to Manhattan's Museum of the Peaceful Arts. Attached to the wheel, which had inspired Longfellow at the age of 16, were these lines: No handicraftsman's art Can to our art compare; We potters make our pots Of what we potters...
...Kahn '34, J. T. Kenney '34, C. H. King '34, G. E. McAdams '33, W. A. McGivney '33, Graham Macleod '33, Andrew Marshall '34, E. B. Marshall '34, D. Mc. Mathews '32, David Miller '34, T. F. Parshley '34, J. S. Plaut '33, A. W. Polk '34, Roger Potter '32, J. T. Quinby '34, G. R. Shaw II '34, H. S. Sise '34, Thomas Spencer '34. Charles Stephenson '34, John Swarts '34, Christopher Sykes '33, Bartlett Thorogood '34, Legrand Thurber '34, Atreus von Schrader '34, Richard Walsh '34, C. R. Ware '34, Carter Wells '34, George Wightman '34, Harrison Williams...