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Although compulsory chapel was abolished at Harvard in 1886, a University rule prohibiting professors from holding classes that conflict with traditional 8:45 a.m. religious services endures...
...Stumped for a Christmas gift? Give a loved one a chapel, as Marylou Whitney gave her husband Sonny, so he might worship without leaving their Saratoga Springs, N.Y., estate. Or do as Washington Contractor Samuel Gessford did when he built five Philadelphia row houses for his homesick wife to look at. Mansions, yachts, planes--they are all among the grand gifts in Only the Best by Stuart E. Jacobson (Abrams; 216 pages; $35). In this celebration of the sumptuous, it is the odd items that twinkle brightest: a money clip from Jack Benny to George Burns ("I want the dollar...
...real Etruscan? Yes, though it is hard to say why, just that he gives us less pleasure than he once did. Even with a genuine work, when it is stripped of its authorship, its identity is damaged, the richness of its context weakened. Could even the Sistine Chapel remain the same in our eyes if we were suddenly informed that there had never been a Michelangelo clinging to the ceiling to paint it? That it was actually the work of some Renaissance craftsman whose name and circumstances were unfortunately unknown...
...Fontegara, Medieval and Renaissance Music: MIT Chapel, noon...
Whistler's (1104 Chapel St.), a restaurant and bar with a moderately sophisticated clientelle, serves expensive food, but people go there for nachos and drinks. Yale sources say Whistler's rarely card, but don't be surprised if they...