Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday afternoons in 1859 Manhattanites trooped to Hope Chapel at Broadway and Eighth Street. At the door "scholars" paid 6?, all others 15?. Inside they climbed a dark stairway to a big covered platform. Hidden gas lamps above lit a circle of landscapes 15 ft. high. Soon a lecturer appeared and talked steadily through the audience's vicarious "Tour Through Italy." The canvas cylinder moved slowly, exposing seriatim the start in Boston Harbor, the rolling Atlantic, several hundred views of Italy and finally the return home to New York Harbor...
According to figures compiled on last week's attendance at the 8.40 o'clock daily chapel services, summer school students are more devout than those in the regular college term. Although the first few days only 20 attended the services, which are being held for the first time this year in the new Chapel, in the last week the average was 75 out of 1617 possible attendance...
...loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality, and the "Butter Rebellion' 'was soon under way. Tutors were hissed day and night and indignation meetings were held in the holy precincts of Holden Chapel where it was resolved that "the Butter Stinketh to Heaven," and it was declared unfit even to lbricate cart-wheels...
...Bullfinch, and erected in 1795. Doric Hall, Memorial Hall, the State Library, (containing the Bradford Manuscript), and the halls of the executive and legislative departments are among the most interesting features of this building. A short time is then taken to enter the Granary Burying Ground and King's Chapel Burying Ground where are buried many of the early leaders of Massachusetts. King's Chapel, the first Episcopal Church in Massachusetts next occupies the attention of the party. The Old South Meeting House now a museum for Revolutionary relics, the Old State House, now the museum of the Bostonian Society...
...bombing squadron, American students who signed the Brown Daily Herald pledge to renounce war would man the machine guns, and athletes who shook hands over the net would be hurling grenades at each other over barbed wire. The roll of Harvard dead as it stands in the Memorial Chapel will testify to this...