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Harvard was founded in 1636 to train young ministers. Even after the institution ended mandatory chapel attendance in the mid-1880s, Harvard remained strongly Protestant. In response to a growing turnout, the University built a total of four chapels, including Appleton Chapel...
Eventually, the congregation outgrew the chapel. On Armistice Day 1932, Memorial Church, built on the site of Appleton Chapel, was dedicated in memory of those who died in World...
...English winemakers aren't waiting for the French to pop their corks. Chapel Down, Nyetimber and RidgeView wineries are already making sparkling wines that rival champagne in quality and price. But what to call the stuff? Ridgeview founder Michael Roberts has dubbed his bubbly Merret, after Christopher Merret, an English doctor who, he says, described how to make fizzy wine decades before the French monk Dom Pérignon did. Expect an argument from the French...
...Coalition troops in Diwaniyah to rally together in their time of grief. "Please, let me ask you to get even more united, even more strong, so that this sacrifice is not a waste," he said to a crowd of about 75 stern-faced soldiers packed into a tiny chapel heavy with the weight of the day. "We need to proceed in the memory of our great hero," he said...
What do you fear? Midterms. Darkness. Death. Seventeen students and community members faced these fears at the MIT Pagan Students’ Group (PSG) annual Samhain ritual at MIT Chapel on Sunday night. The Samhain ritual celebrates the Celtic New Year by commemorating the dead while celebrating new life. Though Samhain is a pagan ritual, attendees were not all strict pagans. “I really like paganism and I enjoy hanging out with pagans. My own religion is something I make up myself out of many things,†says participant Jonas Roy, a 23-year-old Boston...