Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...
...degrees and distinctions on Thursday, June 11, the University's Commencement Day, will begin at 9 o'clock, when the Seniors assemble in the Yard for a procession to the Memorial Church where Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers, will conduct the Senior Class chapel service...
...training and barracking of American service men is nothing new. During the Revolutionary seige of Boston, Harvard was moved to Concord and the College buildings used by Washington's troops. For approximately six months soldiers lived in what are now Massachusetts, Hollis, and Stoughton Halls and in Holden Chapel...
Pope Pius XII's 25th anniversary as a bishop was celebrated this week by the world's 338,386,000 Roman Catholics. He was consecrated at 41 in the Sistine Chapel by Pope Benedict...
...visitors of the cemetery today care to linger over the tombs or even the magnificent Gothic, Matthewesque chapel. The original chapel began to decompose shortly after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point...