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...official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset, Vt...
Among U. S. collectors contributing to the Modern Museum's exhibition are the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Museum, Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. William Averell Harriman, Conductor Josef Stransky, A. Conger Goodyear and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham of Burlington, Vt...
...absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock Ellis and Bernard Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes...
...painted ladies) his course was marked with scandals. Greatest scandal did not break until after his marriage. The household of one of his followers had been broken up through a wife's infidelity, and Noyes had reconciled all parties, who went to live with him in Putney, Vt. There the unconventional religious views of the Perfectionists aroused hostility, but no knowledge of their sexual conduct reached the townspeople. With great gravity and high sense of moral earnestness, a general reshuffling of wives was arranged, continuing until most of the Perfectionists had new partners. Converts were eagerly sought, until...
...Adams, owner of the Boston Bruins and Treasurer of First National Stores was born in Newport. Vt., Oct. 19. 1876, the son of Frank W. Adams of that town. His grandfather Abail and his great-grandfather Deacon Martin Adams also lived in Xewport. Vt. Deacon Martin Adams was in the Revolutionary...