Word: silversmithing
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...over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
Standing 21 1-2 inches in height and measuring 8 inches in diameter, the trophy was made in London in 1795 by Aldridge, a recorded silversmith of the period of George III. It bears the inscription, "The House trophy of Harvard College awarded annually to the House excelling in all sports. Ex dono: Percy S. Straus of the class...
...College was chartered, somewhere in the Colonies, but was little if ever used. In 1650 the "In Christi Gloriam" seal, which will be presented to President Conant in the Inauguration ceremony along with the present official one, was probably made in London. In 1693 John Coney, the famous Colonial silversmith, made another, remarkable for its simplicity and dignity, which was used until 1812. At this time a simple reproduction was made. Josiah Quincy, President of the College from 1836 to 1846, and historian of the bicentennial in 1836 next essayed a most elaborate design, but his successor restored the older...
...executed by Edward Winslow, a famous Colonial silversmith, and came into Leverett's possession while he was president of the University, from 1707 to 1724. For over 200 years it remained the property of the Leverett family, until 1931, when it came into the possession of G. G. Gebelin, from whom it was purchased by the Faculty...
Navajo and Pueblo Indian craftsmen will be guests of the Harvard Anthropology club at the Hotel Commander this evening. In the group will be Dineh-Slapa (Gray Man), a Navajo sand-painter, Jo-01 (War Woman), a rug weaver, and (Fat Boy), a silversmith, Nez-Pah Sa-A (White Mountain Top), a Pueblo Bead maker. The gathering will be a private affair for the education and research of the club. A. M. Tozzer '00, professor of Peabody Museum, will had the guest list...