Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend Mr. Norman Burdett Nash, Robert Paine Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
Further discussion of the proposed war memorial must start with a recognition of the actual situation. The Corporation has voted to accept a War Memorial Chapel; it shows no disposition to rescind this action. A continuation of arguments against the chapel can only serve to emphasize the unfortunate fact that the future memorial to Harvard's war dead will not represent the ideal of a united Harvard...
...appropriate memorial could have been chosen, that a University auditorium or a scholarship foundation would have been more in keeping with the circumstances, it also believes it is the interest of all Harvard men to cooperate with the Administration to the end that as far as possible the new chapel shall express the desires of the majority...
...Peabody of blessed memory used to preach and Mr. Longfellow used to go of a Sunday ought to carry its benediction; but it strikingly failed to carry it in its face. The cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where nobody wants to go? A building with...
...deacons. It is safe to say that most of them come from religious families. However that may be, in the long life of a historic institution there will be periods of religious reawakening and enthusiasm as well as of skepticism and indifference. And if it is beautiful, the Georgian chapel will be sufficiently justified. In view of the rooted Cambridge inclination to multanimity, we may say that Appleton is to be succeeded by another dissenting chapel. At least the architecture will be conformist. New York Times