Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shad concocted of cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?" One day The Roman changed his question to "Pick...
...unofficial meeting of the Harvard Forum was held last night in Holden Chapel at which a controversy arose over the proposal of the Interhouse Debating Organization to affiliate itself with the Forum...
...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
Funeral services will be held in Appleton Chapel at 10 o'clock on Monday for Otto K. O. Folin, for years Hamilton Kahn Professor of Biological Chemistry, and a man well-known all over the world for his ingenious methods of chemical analysis...
...seek to satisfy the needs religion should fill in other, less beneficial ways; and the results will surely wreak harm to an age that cannot withstand many more drains on the morals, the fairness to its students, and out of consideration for society. Princeton should abolish compulsory attendance at chapel, and give religion a chance to meet the challenge of the times...