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...Reverend Professor Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this 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...
...Reverend Professor Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
Architecturally there is even less excuse for erecting a chapel on the proposed site. The plans call for the razing of Appleton Chapel and Robinson Annex, in order that a building in the customary bulldog posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would...