Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin, which won the mid-U. S. contest two weeks ago (TiME, March 9). failed to warble as satisfactorily as some of the others. The judges (Ralph L. Baldwin, Arthur Bodansky, Kent Schindler) came to a quick conclusion that Yale had sung best, Princeton next, Missouri next...
...interested in the advertisement in your paper of Feb. 23, an advertisement of The Forum magazine, displaying an article, Civilization, by Ralph Adams Cram, and a , picture of the New York Cathedral, St. John "-the Divine"- with the statement that the Cathedral was designed by Cram. If my memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from...
...John the Divine were questioned by TIME. Said they : "The firm of Heins '-& La Farge were the original architects. Mr. Heins died in 1907 and the contract Vith that firm expired about that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
Architect Goodhue, with his partner, Ralph Adams Cram, revolutionized ecclesiastical architecture in the U. S. He gave his life to Gothic. The austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered...
Judges of the contest are Arthur Bodansky, Conductor of the Metropolitan Orchestra. Kurt Schindler, Director of the Scola Cantorum; and Ralph Baldwin, Conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York...