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Last week a small group of refugee Russian artists, impelled by deep religious feelings of their own, put on a display of 20th Century icons at New York's Fordham University. Their modern icons dealt with the same devotional subjects-Christ Enthroned, The Archangel Michael, St. Nicholas, The Annunciation-as the 15th Century masterpieces. Painted in tempera on cypress or pine, they also had much of the same timeless, static charm...
...past year, eight of the nine came to the U.S., took daytime jobs, spent their evenings painting. They hope that the Fordham exhibit will lead to commissions from U.S. churches, a chance to start another school and work full-time at their...
...most conspicuous degree-winners were the nation's bishops. By last week, there had been at least eight. Among them: Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, a D.D. from the University of Rochester; Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary bishop of New York, a Litt.D. from Fordham University; Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, an LL.D. from the University of Southern California...
...hour later, the question period officially over, the discussion moved out across the campus, soon moved out across the country. A Harvard professor called the lecture "the kind of statement Bryan used to make in the Bible belt." At Fordham, an anthropologist countered with the flat assertion that the "old story about man being nothing better than an educated ape is completely false...
Last season Georgetown played Penn State, Tulsa, B.C., Maryland, Villanova, Fordham, Holy Cross, and George Washington, beating both New England teams...