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...carnival for Rome was evidently unaware of the provisions of the Vatican-Italian concordat, which calls for 'respect of the sacred character of Rome.' " Undeterred, the Folies went on with its plans to open in Rome's Sistine Theater, not to be confused with the Sistine Chapel...
...five youths who first gathered under William G. Peckham's leadership in 1866, for example, advocated some astonishingly radical doctrines: chapel should no longer be compulsory; Harvard should become a University; and there should be closer student-faculty relationships. As any fool could plainly see, Peckham and his cohorts publishing the Advocate (then called the Collegian) were revolutionaries...
Although what the Collegian advocated was radical enough (for the time), it was perhaps more its attitude than its ideas that irked the college faculty. The newspaper not only criticized compulsory chapel, it did so through a mocking dialogue...
...When the University of North Carolina met North Carolina State in an Atlantic Coast Conference basketball game at Chapel Hill, not a Rebel was on the starting teams. North Carolina's Tarheels, with sharpshooters from New Jersey, Brooklyn and The Bronx, held off the Wolfpack Yankees from Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio, scored one of the season's biggest upsets...
...last great effort to capture "something impossible in rippling waters with tall grass undulating in the sun." Looking at Monet's masterful brushwork, his lyrical blending of earth, water and sky into a single composition, French Painter Andre Masson called the completed set of canvases "The Sistine Chapel of impressionism." It is one of this superb series that now hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...