Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come for Appleton Chapel to go the way of all material things. It is not the passing of the edifice that is to be regretted, for the structural decay of the present chapel is rapidly rendering the building unsafe. But the loss of much that Appleton represents is suffered with varied feelings of regret...
...many, the existing chapel is the last remnant of the old Harvard and is regarded with a veneration peculiar to the alumni who disapprove of the wholesale termination of Harvard traditions. But the deeper significance of the demolition of Appleton is more than the mere replacement...
Senior service at nine o'clock this morning in Appleton Chapel...
...undergraduates and many alumni have freely expressed their abhorrence of any memorial of war which should rise in the place of Appleton. And further, with such a memorial forced upon them, they have petitioned against discrimination among the sons of Harvard and requested unvitiated commemoration for three German soldiers from Harvard who died for their country before the United States entered the war. But the Corporation decreed that these men were not Harvard men and have no place on the roll of honor because they fought for the wrong country. And the Corporation found justification for its decision...
...Reverend Professor W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel Sunday morning...