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...private laws of a medieval feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...
...past is to be seen. If history is concerned "to say everything is dead," Boston is historical. Besides the monuments and museums, and the frigate Constitution, there are dozens of graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, and King's Chapel Cemetery. The Burial Ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population, but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping...
...been in the field longest, and their retreats tend to be more ascetic than those of other denominations. Near Brighton, Mich, the Episcopal Church supports a training center called Parishfield (capacity: 35), whose retreat schedule is typical of that in many Episcopalian retreat houses. Rising is at 6:30, chapel service at 7, breakfast at 7:30. The rule of silence is maintained until 8, when members of the community assist in cleaning rooms, washing dishes, etc. Group Bible study is at 9, followed by discussion of the Biblical texts at 9:30. At 10:30 there is a coffee...
...South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...
...college reunion is inevitably a nostalgic affair, but for many old grads who assembled in the Amherst College chapel one day last week, the reunion brought back more than memories of student high jinks, flunked exams and eccentric professors. In the pulpit, conducting chapel service just as he had done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick...