Word: chapele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of Raphael...
...many, the existing chapel is the last remnant of the old Harvard and is regarded with a veneration peculiar to the alumni who disapprove of the wholesale termination of Harvard traditions. But the deeper significance of the demolition of Appleton is more than the mere replacement...
...chapel there must be. But let it be a new Appleton, a church rising on the same principles as the old Appleton in which those three men of Harvard came to pray before returning to their fatherland to cast their lives away and lose, it seems, their right to be called sons of Harvard...
...these men were not Harvard men and have no place on the roll of honor because they fought for the wrong country. And the Corporation found justification for its decision in a sort of occult interpretation of the unexpressed opinions of the donors who contributed funds for the new chapel. Those who gave money to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the purpose of building and endowing a University Church never passed judgment on the question of commemorating the names of those who died for the Central Powers. No opportunity for their doing so has been offered...
Though the new chapel be beautiful; though it harmonize satisfactorily with the physical aspect of the Yard, its builders and its givers may not expect whole-hearted thanks or support from Harvard's undergraduates, faculty, and alumni whose sensibilities are outraged by the deliberate decree of the Corporation. Nor can there be untrammeled prayer in a chapel which seems not to recognize an impartial...