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...fine. But Mrs. Bunting had even more ambitious plans in mind. To replace the off-campus houses, which have been a drain on the College's financial resources for years, she proposed to build a House and solicited students' on how to construct it. The response came from campus dwellers who clung to the shaky frame houses and nothing could be better. Convinced at last that their day was over, them sadly joined in plans for on Garden St. to house 275 undergraduates and 25 faculty members. Somehow the builders will try to incorporate all the advantages of the campus...
...valiantly to reestablish a buried literature written in tongues no longer spoken. The value of this enterprise is unquestioned, but it is, after all, a preliminary exercise. Once a text has been purified and explicated, then it should be read, as a work of art, not merely an antiquarian construct, or a repository of ancient ideas. Latin is no deader than any other language that is written down; all literature is unchanging, but it dies when it is only studied and not read...
...hands of their followers, the creative insights of the great reformers had been hardened into rigid dogmatisms-such as a literal acceptance of Biblical miracles-that were left shattered by the rational attacks of the Enlightenment and the discoveries of natural sciences. By 1850, Protestant thinkers had begun to construct a new and liberal religious synthesis that attempted to reconcile Christianity with man's empirical knowledge...
...give us any cause to acknowledge that the person of Mary in the event of revelation possesses relatively even such an independent and emphatic position as to render it necessary or justifiable to make it the object of a theological doctrine. Mariology is an excrescence, i.e., a diseased construct of theological thought. Excrescences must be excised...
Sullivan's quarrel with the M.D.C. and the Charles River Yacht Club (a private organization) springs from his attempts to construct a large apartment house on the riverfront property which he owns. The M.D.C. refused to allow Sullivan to build, but a few months later granted the Club permission to construct a clubhouse and wharfs on Sullivan's property...