Anne Schmitt’s fingers move deftly over the stacked keyboards. Though her motions are sure, the notes that emanate from the organ’s pipes make her keystrokes sound clumsy and garbled. She releases a key, but the sound continues until she adjusts the stops, cutting off the flow of air to the pipes entirely. It might be...
The Mary Waterman Memorial Organ in Christ Chapel was dedicated Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. with a ceremony and recital by an expert guest organist. “It’s important to have a dedication because of the sacred nature of the music that gets played on it,” said Jim Holleman, music department chair and director of the...
As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available to the general public, it brings a question that often accompanies new vaccines: Was this made using cells from an aborted fetus? The short answer is often yes, because almost all modern medicine is at least remotely connected with certain immortal cell lines that may have originated...
Barton Swaim is an editorial writer and book reviewer at the Wall Street Journal. His time as a speechwriter for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is the subject of his memoir “The Speechwriter: A Short Education in Politics.” He is this semester’s Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism and just finished teaching a...
There were 8,000 men on the RMS Queen Mary, and their lives were in danger. A South American Nazi spy ring was broadcasting the Allied Queen Mary’s location to as many German U-boats as it could reach as they patrolled the north Atlantic. If they caught the ship, they would torpedo and sink it. Listening...