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Tincture of Pride. In The Morning Watch, Writer James Agee has come close to a small triumph; he has pierced the protective shell of a boy's personality and exposed the religious exaltation of the boy without once falling into bathos. During the watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school...
After the watch, Richard and two others play hooky and head for a swim. The shift from the atmosphere of the chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards...
Allston Burr '89, for whom the new General Education building was named, was chairman of the committee which aided the construction of Memorial Church. This prompted one graduate to say that the very fact that Burr helped in the building of the chapel shows clearly how he would have opposed the new hall...
...choir's record of 15th and 16th century music, some of which has been sung in Memorial Chapel, will be available soon. The ten-inch long-playing record made by Variety Records will feature works by the 15th century composer Dufay; which have never before been recorded. William F. Russel 6G, assistant conductor of the Glee Club, led the choir...
...mansion which was once the scene of glittering Southern balls, 32 Trappists were busily preparing for their silent life of work, prayer and meditation. Since last July, they have added a dormitory, dining hall, wing for offices and kitchen. The old kitchen building has been turned into a simple chapel, with highly polished stalls. "The only trouble with the stalls," said burly Father Peter, "one of the few Trappists permitted to talk to visitors, "is that they are just 18 inches wide, and I'm 22 inches across...