Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus dormitories, because he thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
...aflame. Over the city, clouds of smoke are rising. A procession of people begins to stream up the valley from the city. The crowd thickens. Their steps are dragging, their faces blackened. Many are bleeding or have suffered burns. We give them first aid and bring them into the chapel. Our bandages and drugs are soon gone...
While Michelangelo was furiously improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations...
Dates often include an evening of study in the library as well as a lingering moment in the shadows by the arches of Eaton Chapel (unless the lady is a "pot" -"a girl you might just as well neck with a lamppost...
Last week the trustees were looking over Rollins; this month they will inspect Chapel Hill. It will then be up to a District of Columbia court to decide who will get generous William Ackland's bones and fortune...