University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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-IJf JCAP XGOWN T MJ The Painswick Stone -mrL m HE venerable Painswick Stone, unveiled in All Saints ' Chapel on Febru- ary 7th, 1924, was a gift from the dean and chapter of Westminster Abbey to Sewanee as a token of the close kinship in blood, sympathy, affection and spirituality between the peoples of America and England. While Dr. George Herbert Clarke, of the University faculty, was in England last summer, he asked the dean of Westminster for some memento that would express in a concrete way the union of two great peoples in thought. The dean readily acceded and asked Dr. Clarke to choose something from the ancient chapel of Henry VII, built in 1502. Together with Dr. Charles Luke Wells, who was also in England at the same time, he selected the Painswick stone. The above piece of carving has many historical associations. Washington Irving refers to the famous chapel from which the stone came, as follows: . . . most gorgeous of sepulchres . . . the very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery and scooped into niches. Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. s SEWANED

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Student Qhoir Louis Chester Melcher, Director Mennell Bunting Darden Harwell Finn Thibodau.x Wui.f Ravenscroft Turner Berry Kendall L e.May Hamilton Gillett HlNTON Seyburn Sanford. E. Wright Waring Thomas Person Snowden Jones, G. B. Elliotte Plummer Freyer Barnett Clarke, L. W. Sipe Bailey Clark, A. L SE.WANED

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it) Order of Qovonsmen Bailey Baird Barnett Benton, G. Bridges Butt Byrd Clarke, L. VV. Claytor, E. M; Claytor, P. P. Cooke, J. W. Craighill Dick Douglas Egcleston Elliotte Fraser Freyer Gibbons Gray Gregg Hamilton, W. J. Harris, E. O. Harris, G. H. Hebert, T. J. Hodgkins Holmes Hopper Horner Jackson Jones. R. Kendall Kent Kinsolving KOPPLIN LeMay LlNTHICUM Litton loaring-o. ark MacBlain MaHIN Matthews Meadors Me I.CHER Metcalfe Millard Miller. Y Morgan Moses G. Nauts, W. B., Jr. Perry Poixdexter, E. W. Powers, K. Rocers Russ Sanders Shook Short Stivers Stuckey Sturdivant Swift Veale Wakefield Wallace Waring Welch Wharton Wii.ley Wills Wilson- Yates Young SEN