Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...support prayers, what object there is in compelling attendance. The proper authorities have expressed their conviction, based on experiment, that prayers are not necessary for the discipline of the college; the other grounds for maintaining them are religious. How much devotion is conceivable in students sitting in a chapel where the temperature is 36, and where continual draughts of much colder air are pouring over them? Praying in such cold as this is unparalleled even in the asceticism of the Middle Ages...
...Phillips Brooks is expected to preach next Sunday evening at St. John's Memorial Chapel...
...time of his death. But Dr. Walker is remembered by his pupils and friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached in the College Chapel, and not infrequently in neighboring pulpits. It was an event to hear one of his sermons. The language was invariably plain and direct, yet as invariably free from any expression unworthy the gentleman and the scholar, - golden in its weight, its purity, its value; the manner was most simple...
...MEETING of the Freshman Class was held in Holden Chapel on Wednesday to vote on the question of sending a crew to the intercollegiate regatta. A vote was taken, which resulted in favor of sending a crew. Mr. Otis, of the Scientific School advocated the plan, and, after the vote, expressed his pleasure at the result. A subscription was immediately begun, and the sum of $480 was raised in the hall...
...friends of the gentleman who made the fine spurt up the Chapel aisle last Wednesday morning feel encouraged to hope he will accomplish his six and a half miles an hour next spring...