Author : Wendy Buonaventura
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...to have the opening at that time, with an elaborate programme, and the presence of a number of bishops and other clergy. In many ways the new St. Paul s Chapel is notable among the university structures. It may be said, also, to rank with some of the foremost ecclesiastical structures in the city. The donor and the cost---a large one---are both unknown. The chapel is designed after Byzantine and Italian churches of the Renaissance period. It stands at the eastern end of the university close, facing the library. The dimensions are 82 feet through the transept, and from altar to entrance 135 feet. For ordinary services the choir will be used. It seats 125. In gallery and nave, it is estimated, 1,000 persons can be accommodated. II-I I Announcement is made that work will be begun on the erection of the College of the Immaculate Conception, at Mount Maria, on the Canton-Massillon road, near Canton, Ohio, as soon as bids can be acted upon. The building will have a 272 foot frontage and five stories high. The directors say the building is to be one of the finest in the state. It will be managed by the Sisters of Humility. The famous collection of precious stones and jewelry, the property of the late Mrs. Jane Stanford, valued at nearly $1,000,000, will be sold by the trustees of Leland Stanford University as soon as possible. This action was decided upon at a meeting of the trustees. Part of the collection will be disposed of at private sale, many offers from leading eastern jewelers being already on file. Those unsold will be put up at auction in New York and London. The sale of the jewels is carrying out the expressed wishes of Mrs. Stanford that the jewels be sold and a library fund be established with the proceeds, the income...