Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Dean Matthews characterized the chapel services as unique in their spirit of devotion, he summarized in that phrase the ideal for which Dean Sperry has been striving for many years. Compared with the compulsory chapel that is found in many other colleges, where everything from religion to the disposal of cigarette stubs is Discussed, Harvard's religious organization is certainly superior; but at the same time it is significant that the spirit which Dean Matthews found was as much due to the brilliance of its distinguished visitor as to characteristics inherent in chapel itself...
...insisted on giving local pastors a chance to cultivate the Harvard field. While some of these are excellent men, others are invited merely because they have a "stake in the Harvard community," or because such invitations have been extended in the past--and the popularity and high standards of chapel suffer as a result...
Deans and Professors of the University also provide an exceedingly touchy problem. There seems to be an opinion current among some of the older members of the Faculty that any distinguished teacher with an interest in religion has the right to hold forth in morning chapel. But too often aptitude for religious expression and profundity of religious thought do not accompany mere interest in the subject. Approaching the same problem from a different point of view, there are faculty members whose chapel talks are brilliant; Professors Mather, Munn and Hopper are in this category. Because of the supposed necessity...
...provide the spiritual uplift for which chapel is intended, only the best men from outside and from within the university can be chosen. All cannot be as profound and as stimulating as Dean Matthews, nor as interesting as Professor Hopper. But in proportion as better choices continue to be made, so will the University community, which is always ready to recognize merit as it is to ignore mediocrity, respond with greater chapel attendance...
Conspicuously avoiding a discussion of controversial theological issues in his treatment of the subject "Christ As Leader And Lord." Dean Walter R. Matthews, of St. Paul's London, delivered the third of a series of William Beldon Noble Foundation lectures last night in the Memorial Chapel. Only a short portion of his talk was devoted to the Trinity, emphasis being placed on a choice which dean Matthews defined as between two conceptions of the leader...