Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chasuble and mitre of cloth-of-gold, lay one day last week in a triple coffin near the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. For three days before, throngs (estimated as high as 1,200,000) had ceaselessly filed past the chapel where the Pope's body lay upon a catafalque...
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square...
...Daily Prayers in the Harvard Memorial Church has increased substantially during the past year, Dean Sperry reported. The total attendance last year at 208 such services was 14,135, an average of 68 per service. The average previously was 58. He also announced the formation of a new "Chapel Club" among the undergraduates attending the services. A membership of about 50 has enlisted and a number of meetings have been held throughout the year for the discussion or religious questions...
Victor Ehler, who has been pulling the rope of the Chapel bell every morning since the building was built eight years ago, estimates that he has made the bell ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower...
...year was $288,085, as compared to $272,088 the previous year. The work obtained by students through the Student Employment Office included jobs under the Temporary Student Employment Plan, financed by the University, and wages from Harvard organizations such as the CRIMSON, Phillips Brooks House and the Chapel Choir...