Word: chapels
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Chosen president of Harvard over considerable conservative opposition, Eliot made sweeping changes. He abolished virtually all required courses. He canceled the stern Puritan rules of discipline: no more compulsory daily chapel, no more bans on smoking or theatergoing. He overhauled and greatly improved the medical and law schools, founded the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1872) and the business school (1908). He also presided over the establishment of a college for women, Radcliffe (1894), originally known mainly as "the Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells...
...Michael Heyman. By the same token, Harvard may be more closely scrutinized because the challenges confronting it are those confronting most major universities; how Harvard copes may point to the future direction of much of higher education. Says Christopher Fordham, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "When a glitch develops, it sort of becomes a national problem. Everybody wonders what they are going to do about...
...Pullman redecorated in the 1950s to the specifications of cafe society Chronicler Lucius Beebe and his friend Charles Clegg, members of the crushed- velvet school of design. The rococo trappings, now somewhat tattered, include gold-colored silk curtains, an oil painting on the ceiling copied from the Sistine Chapel and a white Venetian marble fireplace. Passengers who wish to slosh champagne on the open rear platform and watch the world whiz by can do so for a trifling $2,000 a day (drinks included...
...American aristocracy, or what passed for one after the turn of the century, gave mostly lip service to the ideal of noblesse oblige. At morning chapel, prep school boys were earnestly implored to serve God and country, but as grown men most followed Mammon instead, heading directly to Wall Street to make money...
...acknowledged guru of the computer movement is Philip Meyer, 55, now professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meyer first used a computer as an investigative tool when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, analyzing the demographics of blacks in Detroit's 1967 riots. He had previously worked on a computer while on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Meyer: "Harvard had an IBM 7090, and I learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired...