The Doctrine of Inevitability

[James Devine]

At 12:44 PM 9/1/98 -0400, Doug  wrote:
>... According to Yale legend, an entire village of Italian artisans was
imported to ... make the (often whimsical) stained glass.<

yes: the college (glorified dorm) where I lived had a stained-glass window
showing John C. Calhoun standing over his slaves. For reasons that remain
unclear, the strategic parts of the window were taken down during the 1960s
and replaced by clear glass. So we could only see JC's upper torso and the
slave's bare feet. (The college was named after JC, natch.) Maybe the
window should have been left as is, so that Yale's class stance would be
more obvious. (I guess it's not a big problem nowadays, but when I was
there it was "middle-class" in orientation.)

Jim Devine jdevine at popmail.lmu.edu &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html