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...troops were moving out of Vietnam, and women were moving into the River Houses. Some students demanded that Harvard divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation, while others just wanted the equal athletic facilities guaranteed by the recently passed Title IX...
Providence has rapidly emerged as the sentimental favorite in the field, since the school will cancel its baseball program after this season to comply with Title IX regulations...
Providence has rapidly emerged as the sentimental favorite in the field, since the school will cancel its baseball program after this season to comply with Title IX regulations...
...wasn't done by monks rattling tin cups on street corners. Gregory IX, the Pope who canonized St. Francis, wanted to establish San Francesco partly for religious reasons and partly for political ones--Assisi, which had been wrested from the Holy Roman Emperor only some 20 years before, was the major power base for the papacy in central Italy. He took the sanctuary under his ample wing, supplying the land and encouraging donations to it. Later Popes sometimes took up residence there...
...could hardly ignore. Gifts to San Francesco were gifts to the papacy as well as to the memory of St. Francis, and they poured in from all over Christendom: vestments made by Arabic textile masters in Palermo and presented by the crusader King of Jerusalem; illuminated manuscripts from Louis IX, King of France (and later a saint himself); sumptuous tokens from the rulers of England, Germany and Spain, as well as the various lay and ecclesiastical bigwigs of Italy and the successive Popes themselves. The last person to leave a big gift of medieval Italian art to San Francesco...