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...many men in Harvard College, this new plan for the University, which envisages such cost-free benefits as dinner in the airy splendor of Kresge Hall or lunch in a friend's House, contains, alas, one inherent blot. Radcliffe's girls are also members of the University, and they too could eat in the Houses at will; escaping the clutches of Messrs. Hazen and Albiani, they would invade the precincts of maledom and put an end to unfettered, masculine repartee...
This is no invidious criticism. In referring to TIME'S omission, we express the normal desire of a labor paper to give an identity to the thousands of building tradesmen who helped make all this splendor possible. Perhaps these men will someday be forgotten like the faceless helots who built the awesome pyramids of Egypt, the beehive tomb at Mycenae, the Temple of Apollo at Baalbek, the Great Wall of China, those slaves of inscrutable tyrannies who toiled without recompense...
Veni Creator Spiritus. The council will open with a splendor to match its high goal. From his throne in the Hall of Benedictions of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, Pope John XXIII will intone the first notes of the 9th century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then the cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, abbots and superiors of religious orders, representing more than 90% of the church's hierarchic leaders-some auxiliary bishops and many Iron Curtain prelates will not attend-will begin their solemn procession across Bernini's piazza toward the great Basilica...
None of this was known to the man who had raised funds for the hospital. In fact he boasted of his success in getting the Negroes out of their original hospital quarters, in a leaky basement. When he was first informed that they were not exactly living in splendor now, he reflected that "the first move came 15 years ago. Maybe another change will take as long as 15 years but don't worry. It will come." Finally, after talking with some Negroes who had had first-hand experience with the hospital, he agreed that something should be done...
...work at 23, was best known for his monumental English Social History, which for some 20 years has been a standard text on both sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish and shorn of spiritual value...