Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please, sir, will the former gentleman kindly tell me who has been rumoring "witless criticism" that "They threw up their arms in despair and say we will build a chapel large enough to fill the yard, one which will leave no room for their vice, one which they will be forced to attend, one which will bring them under the guiding hand...
...these lily-livered saints who, from their monasteries, look out on the Harvard yard to find den of vice and sin sheltered beneath the ancient elms? They throw up their arms in despair and say we will build a chapel large enough to fill the yard, one which will leave them no room for their vice, one which they will be forced to attend one which will bring them under the guiding hand...
...This obtains even though the workmen who build them get high salaries and work normal hours: therefore, their efficiency is greater...
...lesson he said a prayer and left the church, locking the door behind him. Every alternate Sunday for many years this old man has held such services. He is a Protestant, the only Protestant in Samnaun. Eighty years ago half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate Sundays. They bought a bell, started a cemetery. But the Protestants of Samnaun seemed to prefer the cemetery to the church. They dwindled away much faster than the Catholics-so fast that at last there was only...
...precedent to build a memorial in the form of an institution for the betterment of the human physique and a monument for the joy of athletic contest. William H. Ennis...