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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill...
...campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...
...monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door and suggested little beyond the threshold...
Drawn Bayonets. For 24 hours before the game last week, the bell on the university chapel clanged without let. At dusk on Big Wednesday, the Clemson Tiger was burned in effigy on the State House steps while alert policemen stood by to prevent free-for-alls. There were precedents for their fears. In 1902, the Clemson cadet corps showed up for the game with drawn bayonets. In 1946 the Great Day splashed over into a riot. This time, except for a few Carolina enthusiasts who lobbed rotten tomatoes and grapefruit rinds at Clemson cars, the partisans were on their good...
Nehru's day began early and confusedly. At 10 a.m. his black Chrysler sped up to a Wellesley gate and was firmly deported by a guard with orders to "keep the cars out, because Nehru was coming." Despite this inauspicious beginning, the official party managed to reach Wellesley Chapel, where it met with a warmer reception. Over 1700 girls swarmed out of the classrooms and sat on the lawns and hung from the trees to see the Pandit. Sensing the importance of the occasion, they gave oral vent to their emotions...