Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, brick and travertine building atop Janiculum Hill. A far cry from the old "House on Humility Street," the new college has 307 students' rooms, a 455-seat theater, infirmary, recreation and music rooms, 130,000 sq. ft. of athletic fields, and the lavishly decorated Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, with 55 separate marble altars...
...fascinating to observe how these men, the master "form givers" of our century, have in recent years produced buildings that fulfill the promise of their varied styles perhaps as never before. The only work of Le Corbusier's shown is his Chapel at Ronchamp. The brooding, heaving forms of roof and walls have such complexity that even the many fine photographs by Life photographer Ezra Stoller do not even begin to reveal all their sculptural possibilities...
...work to "improve" the students. One of his first "reforms" was the establishment of a new marking system, the Scale of Merit. This system sought to place students in their proper academic positions with mathematical certainty: 8 points for attending class, a loss of 16 points for missing Sunday chapel, etc. Quincy himself took Puritanic glee in toting up the figures weekly. The Scale of Merit, however, proved a dismal failure, for it placed a premium upon attendance and not upon learning. Perhaps the system fitted well with Quincy's preconceptions of the ideal college course, which he described...
...thought was the sensible course. On May 29th, he dismissed the entire sophomore class, and made the stunning announcement that criminal prosecution would be instituted against the window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...
From London to Paris to Scotland, President Eisenhower kept up the momentum and drive that had swept aside European doubts about U.S. leadership-and everywhere his ovation rolled on tumultuously. In London, tens of thousands lined his route to the American Memorial Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral, waving, some shouting "We like Ike!" and "Welcome!" In Paris, the crowds were restrained behind the official pomp and glitter, but cries for "Eek" followed him everywhere. The Scots came for miles to cheer him, even though he had slipped into Prestwick Airport only for a weekend's golf...