Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With services conducted at 8.45 o'clock this morning by W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School and chairman of the board of preachers, Harvard's new World War Memorial Chapel, made possible by a gift of $800,000 from alumni of the University, will be thrown open to the public for the first time. Although formal dedication ceremonies will not take place for some time, the chapel will be in daily use from...
...plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...completion is the memorial room, directly behind the southern portico, facing Widener Library. Here is to be placed the tablet bearing the inscription, "From these we have learned in peace," and the panels inscribed with the names of Harvard men who died in the War. Dedication of the chapel, as well as the decision as to whether the names of Harvard men who died fighting for the Central Powers will be included in the list, waits upon the completion of the memorial room...
During the many years in which Harvard has allowed the question of a man's religion to be his own question rather than that of the University, daily chapel has been attended by a modest group of regular persons, faculty and students alike. Practically speaking it is to be expected that the new building will increase the number of those who form the central core of the morning services. Participation in the services is not demanded by the University. It is to be hoped that in the new surroundings increasing numbers of Harvard men will find a natural influence towards...
...sensitive soul, disliking abrupt contrasts. The annual transition from vacation to college jars his equilibrium, and the divine aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen will brighten his spirits...