Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your newly acquired sports colyumnist, W. F. C. ("Hank") Foster is one of the most naively humorous writers in contemporary journalism! His contributions, coming in the midst of all the serious chapel business, are really refreshing. They make me yearn for the pleasant days in Freshman English when our theses, anecdotes, and disquisitions used to be read aloud before a squirming audience...
Opposition to the chapel has been prompted by many reasons. Probably the greatest unity of opinion is to be found in the fear that a $1,000,000 chapel in the Yard will prove to be an architectural blunder. It is no secret that old Harvard men look aghast as new brick buildings are plumped down in rapid succession in the Yard's few remaining open spaces. There can be no doubt that a very large group of men, alumni and undergraduates, are united in asking that if the new chapel is erected in the Yard, it be of moderate...
There appears to be no reason indeed why the chapel must irrevocably be in the Yard. To place it near the Charles implies no breach of trust with those who have contributed the funds. Inevitably the center of undergraduate life is shifting from the Yard towards the riverbank. If proper location could be found in the new neighborhood there is every reason to prefer such a site. Certainly in the midst of the House Plan the chapel would have its best chance to become an integral part of student life...
...oppose the chapel is virtually to attempt to undo what the Corporation has already decreed. On the other hand, the vast majority of Harvard men feel strongly opposed to a large chapel in the Yard. Plans are still in the hands of the architect. It is not too late for the Corporation to reconsider its choice of location...
...exercises in the chapel were for the most part in Latin. My father addressed the President in that language . . . Then we had some more Latin from young Mr. Francis Bowen, of the senior class. . . . There were also a few modest words presumably in the vernacular, though scarcely audible, from the recipient (Jackson) of the doctorate...