Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need is for a living religion rather than a neutral one, and it is the opinion of many that the present chapel is expressive of a certain phase of barren and starved religiosity that was so prevalent in New England several, centuries ago but that has long since spent itself and has gone out of existence. I feel that the time has come to replace this cold lifeless illustration of a worn-out conception by a more appropriate, and a more beautiful, representation...
...convinced that with a more desirable chapel the many men who now scatter in the churches throughout Boston and vicinity because they do not find enough at Appleton would feel drawn to the University chapel. It would lead the way for additions in the religious program. A proper and suitable base would be offered for a genuinely great man to be called to in order to fill the position of Dean of the Chapel or a similar office of religious leadership. Besides there will be appropriate arrangements for smaller services, so there could be evening ones as well as morning...
...present chapel may at present afford sufficient size, but it is neither beautiful nor well-designed for the greatest usefulness, and is entirely unsuited as an expression of the truly warm glowing religion that could exist here, attracting students to it rather than sending them elsewhere. J. DeWolf Perry...
Hundreds of names had been added to the CRIMSON petition protesting against the proposed memorial chapel when the paper went to press last night...
...glad to approve your protest against a chapel memorial to the Harvard men who died in the World War, and particularly your conclusion--"Any memorial, to be a valid tribute, must embody the united sentiment of those in whose name it is given...