A devout little grey-haired Christian is Ralph Adams Cram, 72, famed medievalist architect who designed such soaring fanes as Princeton University Chapel and the East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. A moody man with a talent for amateur acting, Architect Cram is a stanch Anglo-Catholic whose religious conversion occurred during his student days at Rome, at midnight mass in a Jesuit church. Never better did he express his convictions than at a Bryn Mawr commencement four years ago when he said: "Perhaps a return to the medieval conception of building beautiful chapels would help...
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