Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Room of the House. Assisting the newly elected officers in carrying on the policies of the Association will be the following men: R. S. Holden '29, chairman of the Social Service Committee, P. M. Sheldon '30, chairman of the Harvard Mission Committee, J. S. Frame '29, chairman of the Chapel Committee, W. N. Bump '29, chairman of the Lectures Committee, E. D. Emigh '30, chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, D. P. Tucker '29, chairman of the Deputations Committee, C. W. Lowry E.T.S., secretary of the Graduate Schools Society, C. H. Willard 3L., secretary of the Law School Society...
...Chapel Committee aims to fulfill three main functions. These are: to cooperate with Professor E. C. Moore and the Board of Preachers and recommend for future years those speakers who have been most popular with the students; to usher at the Sunday morning services and make arrangements for faculty reservations; and to stimulate by individual effort the student interest in chapel. Accordingly the committee has kept a record of the most interesting preachers; it has provided the ushers for the Sunday services, and for the special Christmas carol services; and kept certain pews reserved for faculty members until five minutes...
Professor E. C. Moore and the Board of Preachers have made special efforts to secure eminent preachers from various parts of this country, Canada, and England to conduct the services in Appleton Chapel. Usually each speaker has remained for a week and has kept office hours in the Preacher's room in Wadsworth House from 9 to 11 each morning, where students were invited to drop in to visit or consult...
Among those who have preached in chapel have been: Reverend H. S. Coffin, Reverend C. L. Slatter, Reverend W. H. Sedgewick, Reverend. J. F. Newton, Reverend F. M. Eliot, Reverend T. G. Soares, Reverend C. R. Brown, Dean W. L. Sperry, Reverend H. K. Sherrill, Reverend A. W. Vernon, Reverend C. H. Park, Reverend H. E. Foadick Raymond Calkins, Heverend J. H. Lathrop, Professor E. C. Moore, Reverend J. C. Perkions, Reverend N. B. Nash, Reverend H. B. Washburn, Reverend H. H. Tweedy, Reverend A. MacColl, Reverend Karl Reiland, Reverend T. H. Davies, Reverend J. T. Dallas. Those scheduled...
...record of chapel attendance has been kept, and shows a Sunday attendance averaging 219 students compared with 217 for last year. The public attendance has averaged 318, making a total Sunday average of 537. The average attendance at the daily services has dropped to 64, from an average of 75 last year, but it is interesting to note that most of the decrease has come in the four weeks of the Reading Period and Examination Period when academic pressure has driven the students across the quadrangle to the Library instead. In estimating religious tendencies at Harvard it must, however...