Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Unnecessary waving of the bloody shirt" is the characterization of the American Legion Post at Newark applied to Harvard's action in barring from its war memorial chapel the names of three alumni who served the Central Powers in the World...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...
...decision will seem wise, for the chapel will inevitably in the long run be primarily a memorial to heroism, and the spirit of sacrifice was surely present in both lines of trenches. Only those are surprised that Columbia now resumes its exchange professorship with the University of Berlin who had supposed that the old bond had long ago been reforged. President Lowell, surely, will find all Harvard alumni with him in his readiness to forecast the reconciliation of the future...
...chapel, then, must be devoted to the patriotism of Harvard men or the aims of the allied powers. The two are entirely different, and it is sophistry to try to combine them. Due to recent historical discoveries, few intelligent people have much respect for either side's causes, as such, but regard for the men themselves can never be diminished...