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The seminary's first students lived in cold stone cells with no heat, slept on corn-husk mattresses, fought malaria and fleas. But life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yankee Seminarians | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Bishop John P. Cody (Class of '32) of Kansas City spoke for all the North American College's old grads this weekend when he said: "This institution is ageless. We who have studied here give thanks to Almighty God for the good the college has done. And we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yankee Seminarians | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Basic Science | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Their leader, "Mother Ann" Lee, reached the colonies from England in 1774, with her own mystical version of the Protestant faith. Mother Ann insisted on strict communal life, with all property held in common, equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PIONEER FUNCTIONALISTS | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

At 94, the great "B.B." had been failing for more than a year. Visitors to his exquisite villa near Florence reported that he seemed curled up on himself, listless, sere, like an autumn leaf in the boisterous wind of death. Last week Berenson's surviving sister, his doctor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Autumn Leaf | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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