Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over three quarters of a million dollars has been subscribed towards the building of the new Chapel. Nearly $400,000 of this sum has already been paid to the treasurer of theuniversity. A committee of university alumni will have charge of collecting the unpaid subscriptions...
...adoption of the resolution to build a war memorial chapel culminates a movement for a University memorial which began early in the World War, as soon as the deaths of Harvard men were reported. It will require the demolition of the present chapel, but inside the new memorial there will be a small chapel which will be called Appleton Chapel...
...Whereas on April 13, 1925, the Corporation, acting on the advice of a committee of the Overseers and of the Associated Harvard Clubs, were of opinion 'that if the alumni desire to present to the University an adequate sum of money for the building of the University chapel, the same should be accepted and that 'whether or not such a chapel shall be in memory of the Harvard men who died in the war is a matter to be determined by those who give the same...
...Whereas on February 14, 1927, the Corporation resolved that they were unanimously and heartily in favor of a beautiful new chapel in the Yard, which shall be a memorial to the Harvard men who gave their lives in the World...
...Resolved that the said sum, with any future additions, shall be used to build a chapel, and that a committee, to consist of representatives of the Corporation and of the committee of the alumni in charge of collecting the subscriptions, prepare plans for the same