Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book had indicated. To better them she began by building a wooden chapel-school in the Indian Territory for the Osages. When a cyclone wrecked it she built another, then founded a dozen Indian boarding schools in the far West. Katharine Drexel planned an order devoted to the Indians, learned she must first undergo the usual convent discipline In 1889 she pledged her entire income...
Construction of the Memorial Church was begun in July, 1931. It stands on the site of the former Appleton Chapel...
Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
...moment to muse on the passing of an old friend, a building missed by few, and now supplanted by a modern aedifice that never will quite be able to recapture the dim religious light of its antiquated predecessor. But this was no time to think longer of old Appleton Chapel. On stormy nights even the new landmark will pass out of sight in the greyness of the night, just as the older building used to do, until, in fact, its unobtrusiveness had wiped it away from the slate of remembrance of all but a few faithful supporters...