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...church was organized in 1789 for Church of England families living in Cambridge, who had no church nearer than King's Chapel, Boston. Its first missionary was the Rev. East Apthorp, whose house on Plympton St., was so close to the doors of Harvard College that alarm and antagonism among Puritans forced Apthorp's resignation and return to England...
Warmed by a docile sun, pensive in cap and gown, Kennedy rose to speak before 40,000 students and townspeople in the University of North Carolina's football stadium at Chapel Hill. He was there to get an honorary doctor of laws degree; at his side was the university's President William C. Friday; Kennedy's speech-something about Berlin-lay before him. The President put it unobtrusively aside, and then for a quarter of an hour mulled aloud from a few notes on "how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal...
...drifts on. But later, though he did but see her lurching by, Sam realizes that he is in love. He decides to find the girl and salvage her. In the effort to save her, he finds a justification for his own life. At the Sistine Chapel, facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment, the failed painter delivers a soliloquy. " 'Okay, Angelo,' he said to himself grimly. 'I came into that chapel of yours expecting a big lift. That finger of God of yours came right down and you stuck it in my eye. Maybe my canvases should...
...blind 46 years ago. He first saw the world at two, when cataracts were removed from his eyes; his thick glasses still make him look perpetually astonished at what he sees. A native New Yorker, Bruner got into psychology by a fluke: Duke University expelled him for cutting compulsory chapel, relented only when his psychology professor (newly arrived from Harvard) pleaded that he was too bright to fire. Bruner spent the rest of his chapel periods in the lab studying intelligence in rats, went on to a Ph.D. at Harvard, wound up as a psychological warfare expert on Eisenhower...
...requirement is an aggravation not because it demands exercise but because it requires adherence to a group of rules which are inconvenient and annoying. It represents the same kind of paternalism as compulsory chapel and censorship, and the fruit of that singular reasoning which believes that everything right about the College is the result and justification of the things that are wrong...