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...original Magna Carta has dis appeared, but the document that will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda for the next year is the first of four copies signed by a reluctant King John at Runnymede in 1215, granting personal and political freedoms to England's rebellious barons. The charter is regarded as the foundation stone for the common...
Presenting the precious document to the U.S., Britain's Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn Jones, told an audience that jammed the Rotunda: "Peoples not familiar with our ways have thought it a trifle paradoxical for the British to be joining in the celebration of the Bicentenary of what was, after all, the loss of the American colonies. They overlook our traditions of compromise. We in fact now regard the events of two centuries ago as a victory for the English-speaking world...
...pilgrims pass in slow procession through the soft peach glow of the great rotunda, moving up to the shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
...dome. He has been in charge of the Great Refractor during the last 15 years, during which the Tower, the dome and the telescope itself have decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower from the bottom up. "This room, the rotunda at the base here, has potential," he says, walking around the granite pier that supports the Refractor. Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin--was given liberties, here. He, ahem, found the ultraviolet paint, as you see, and then...
Harvard will commemorate the occasion with special exhibits at the Fogg Museum and in the Widener rotunda...