Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present agitation against the erection of a War Memorial Chapel in the Yard to replace Appleton is now almost a week old. During that time many issues, pertinent and extraneous, have arisen which have served to make the question of opposition as confused as the original chapel discussion...
...Reverend Professor Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...convinced that with a more desirable chapel the many men who now scatter in the churches throughout Boston and vicinity because they do not find enough at Appleton would feel drawn to the University chapel. It would lead the way for additions in the religious program. A proper and suitable base would be offered for a genuinely great man to be called to in order to fill the position of Dean of the Chapel or a similar office of religious leadership. Besides there will be appropriate arrangements for smaller services, so there could be evening ones as well as morning...
...official developments were forthcoming yesterday, except the statement that Appleton would not be torn down until after the end of the present college term, instead of in May as reported yesterday. Numerous communications were received by the CRIMSON, which will be published as space permits. Both sides are represented in the letters, and a number of ideas are submitted suggesting what form the memorial might take instead of a chapel. A large number of students were of the opinion that if a chapel is to be erected, it should be placed outside the Yard, preferably near the river, where...
...Corporation, yet the objections of both faculty members and undergraduates have been consistently disregarded. A majority of both of the latter groups, as well as numerous alumni of the last decade, have been the most violent opponents of the plan for a new chapel in place of Appleton. The desire of the committee to produce some tangible results from their labor is readily understandable. Yet to settle the question by the immediate building of a chapel seems inadvisable in the face of so much opposition...