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<\/a>Based on a manuscript by architect John Gray, which was edited by Professor of Political Science Timothy Fuller for print, the book states that the chapel \u201ccommemorates, as Mr. [Eugene Percy] Shove wished, his clergymen ancestors both in England and America over a period of four centuries.\u201d<\/p>\nThese windows, Cramer says, directly reflect that \u201cMr. Shove was proud of his English ancestors, and Colorad<\/span>o Springs was \u2018Little London.\u2019 [William Jackson] Palmer founded it as kind of a feudal outpost on the frontier. \u2026 These learned people put together this program and it\u2019s beautiful, but it\u2019s hard to figure out how to make use of it in a constructive way.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Since CC is about diversity and inclusion, we do need to think about this. In the lower corner there if you look <\/span>very closely that\u2019s Saint Patrick bringing the Gospel to Ireland, and driving \u2018the snakes\u2019 out. And then we have a green snake and a purple snake and an orange snake. \u2026 I mean it\u2019s all just rich with white folks\u2019 ethnic assertiveness about themselves,\u201d says Cramer.<\/p>\n The Carlton Memorial Triple West Window, at the back of the building, is, according to \u201cThis Glorious and Transcendant Place,\u201d themed to the \u201cglorification of Christ the teacher.\u201d Christ is the largest and highest image, surrounded by men and angels in pairs including his 12 apostles, Socrates, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, \u201cIt\u2019s nice,\u201d Cramer says, \u201cbecause it is beginning to get off of just missionary activity into academic activity. The disciples of Christ are religious figures, but they are known as disciples, which is to say, students.\u201d<\/p>\n Though the details of them are much more difficult to see due to their placement, the three large windows collectively known as the \u201cRose Windows\u201d focus more prominently on the college as a place of education. The Chancel Rose window, above the organ, features allegorical figures representing the liberal arts and the major faculties of medieval universities: Christian theology, medicine, grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, and law.<\/p>\n The South Transept Rose Window features teachers of the arts and humanities, such as Erasmus and Saint Ignatius Loyola, while the North Window features teachers of the sciences, from Archimedes on to modern times. Included in \u201cthe green hat, at 9 o\u2019clock,\u201d says Cramer, is an unlikely character for church stained glass windows: Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n \u201cYou go to the more fundamentalist part of Christendom and say, \u2018We\u2019ve got a stained glass window with Charles Darwin,\u2019 and people would say, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s sacrilegious.\u2019 The point is that these guys here thought it fit with the kind of Christian approach to knowledge, which Darwin would have agreed with himself.\u201d<\/p>\n As we start to wrap up our tour, Cramer pauses and asks, \u201cIf you were thinking about this now, who would you put up here? Would you put up [Jacques] Derrida? Would you put up Martha Nussbaum?\u201d<\/p>\n Both of these 20th-century philosophers seem like decent options, but since his question was actually rhetorical, I toss it back at him.<\/p>\n The original idea for these windows was to divide up knowledge, and then have representative characters who functioned within the sciences and the humanities, but he notes that Mierow must not have thought about social sciences. \u201cThere are no economists up here. So should we have Adam Smith? And which side should we put Adam Smith on?\u201d<\/p>\n He points out three unadorned windows on the lower level and suggests perhaps the college should consider some new <\/span>stained glass. \u201cIt would be an occasion if somebody wanted to think about decorating these. What else could you do?\u201d<\/p>\n For instance, he adds, \u201cThere are all these windows, doing the gospel coming \u201cIt all needs exegesis and criticism,\u201d he says, \u201cbut that\u2019s okay, that\u2019s what a liberal arts college is for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJohn Calvin, and Immanuel Kant.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cWell, would Martha Nussbaum want to be in stained glass?\u201d he responds, laughing. \u201cThat\u2019s a good question. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ninto England, but not into Colorado. And there\u2019s nothing in here about the Southwest heritage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n