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...disturbing. At 6:35 Brother James Madden strides heavily through the dimly lit corridor, banging on the door of each cell, intoning, "Let us bless the Lord." Having thus been rescued from a host of bad dreams, you arise and in complete silence take your place in the chapel, prepared at the stroke of 7 to begin celebrating the mass. It will be an awe-inspiring performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Island of Tranquility On Memorial Drive: The Anglican Monastery | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls and blew out several windows of the completed Lady Chapel. The pounds of merchant benefactors and the pence of a devoted public paid the bills: over the years the cathedral has cost more than $11 million and only $100,000 more remains to be raised for final expenses, although maintenance costs will remain high. At that the cathedral is a bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Masterpiece for Merseyside | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Funeral services were private. A memorial service will be held in a few weeks at the Harvard Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gerschenkron, Economist And Scholar, Dies at 74 | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

...Pope was a Dutchman, Adrian VI (1522-23). A university chancellor and rector in the Low Countries, he also was Inquisitor General of Spain. For a man charged with burning heretics, he had a delicate sensibility. Shocked by the immorality of Renaissance art, he threatened to whitewash the Sistine Chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shedding the Dutch Curse | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...undergraduates entering Harvard were ranked by the president according to their social standing: "to the Dignity and the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." Ranking determined room assignments, seating and serving order at dinner, chapel seating, class seating and even the marching order at college processions. This practice continued into the early 1800s, when it was terminated largely due to the outrage of families whose sons had been placed low on the list...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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