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Today, for instance, not a single English 13th century wooden crucifix figure survives in England; to find a probable example, the organizers of this show had to borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been...
...author might be interested to know that we have several complaints from students about what they regard as the manipulative techniques of the Boston Church of Christ. We hope he would agree that the destructive activity of any religious organization both deserves and requires public scrutiny...
...Christ, Rutger," he says. "You don't look so good. You look really sick...
...this school where diversity is the highest good, religion has a constricted place. That is why the Boston Church of Christ seems so out of place. The church brings religion into the open. Members believe strongly enough to want to share their beliefs--in the Boston Garden or in a Harvard dining hall is a more than fitting place to seek converts...
...Boston Church of Christ takes advantage of the insecurity some people feel here, then the church should be controlled on campus. Harvard, however, should be sure it is acting to safeguard students' rights to make their own choices. Otherwise, efforts against the church might have more to do with Harvard's arrogance, and with its unfortunate feeling that those who talk about religion are just a bit too impolite to be endured...