Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad he wasn't in chapel Sunday night, terribly glad he didn't hear Jesus described as a "tough-minded man" of fibre, strength, and force, and that we believed a lie when we believed wars never solve anything. "It is a misconception common to most Christians that they must have nothing to do with war," that's what he said. And "History is made by men, not by economic forces...
...masque from which it had sprung, never getting past the stage of a masque with incidental music. Venus and Adonis is such a masque: an elaborate little puppet opera, composed in 1685 as an offering to James II by John Blow, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Organist at Westminster Abbey. Most of us know of Blow only as the vague, unimportant creature who tutored Purcell. Actually he was an excellent composer with an individual style of his own, and to relegate him to a name in Purcell's biography is to slight his gifts...
...case in point is the present "debate" on the President's Lend-Lease Bill. Here, in Chapel Hill, a small group of pseudo-pacifists have obtained strategic positions on the editorial staff of the official university paper, the Daily Tar Heel, and in the discredited and split but still Communist-dominated local branch of the American Student Union, and, by their editorials and handbills vociferously campaign against effective action in aid of the Allies while the rest of the university community sits by and does nothing...
Hamilton College students picketed their chapel, implored their president: "Hal-Don't leave us for Minnesota." A petition, signed by every one of Hamilton's 432 undergraduates, urged him to stay. So did Hamilton's faculty, its trustees. Last week little Hamilton's big, popular President William Harold Cowley, who the week before had been offered the presidency of University of Minnesota (TIME, Feb. 24), changed his mind about accepting it, jilted the second biggest U. S. university to stay where he was. Said he: "I have a moral responsibility to finish what I have started...
...chapel talk this fall, he said, "War is not the worst possibility we face; the worst is the complete triumph of totalitarianism, and at the moment it is sufficiently real to warrant every man's most earnest consideration...