Word: chapele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors about the plans for the Chapel have presented varied estimates both as to cost and extent of the building. One has placed the expense at $800,000, while another, estimating a cost of $1,300,000, proposed a Chapel of 2,000 capacity, extending from near Thayer Hall at the West end to a line parallel to Sever at the East. To carry out this plan, which includes a large tower, it would be necessary to remove not only the present Appleton Chapel, but also Old Fogg Art Museum...
During the process of construction, which would last nearly two years, it is planned to hold morning services in Holden Chapel, while Sunday services would take place in Sanders Theatre. For morning services in the new Chapel, the proposal has been made to use either one of the transepts or a small chapel preserving the name of Appleton
News that plans are going ahead rapidly for the erection of a chapel as a memorial to the Harvard men who died in the World War is unwelcome. Although a majority of the alumni has passively favored the proposal there has been vigorous opposition from a minority of the graduates. And in Cambridge militant opposition to the War Memorial Chapel has been the one consistent feature of undergraduate opinion since the idea was first brought forward...
...this antagonism. It has been said that the objection of undergraduates is to a memorial in itself. This is not true. The undergraduates feel that the proposed memorial is a poor one, and they desire a memorial which would have more meaning in future years. The suitability of a chapel as a memorial is already demonstrated in the colossal failure of Memorial Hall to mean anything to Harvard men of the past few generations, except as an eating place, an examination room, and a floor for the now defunct Junior Prom...
Some of the leading defenders of the chapel as a memorial feel that the slight spiritual sentiment at Harvard may be uplifted and augmented by providing new and more beautiful surroundings. On principle, this is a very superficial method of raising religious ideals. And in practice, it would be a stupendous mockery. Certainly if the function of a memorial is to equal its symbolic significance, a new chapel is the last type of edifice to erect on Harvard ground. Among the architect's plans there is a chapel capable of seating a congregation of 2,000. Yet, only...