Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend Professor Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
While the anti-chapel agitation, led by the Harvard CRIMSON, is taking its course, I feel that perhaps a word would not be inappropriate from one of the many who are eager to see some sort of religious curricula as part of the University life available for those who desire it. Before expressing myself on that subject, I would like to stop a moment to point out that as the matter now stands the various issues have become quite confused. The opposition to the new chapel does not include just those who would have no use for a chapel...
...movement against the erection of a World War Memorial Chapel in the Yard would gain more weight, it seems to me, if its sponsors were able to offer a suitable alternative plan. The problem really is, how best to spend the eight hundred thousand dollars the alumni have raised. The memorial should be useful and fitting, and if there is anything at all to be learned from Harvard's experience in the past, it is that neither chapels nor barn-memorials fill either of those requirements...
...Harvard Clubs, and then by the Corporation, yet the objections of both faculty members and undergraduates have been consistently disregarded. A majority of both of the latter groups, as well as numerous alumni of the last decade, have been the most violent opponents of the plan for a new chapel in place of Appleton. The desire of the committee to produce some tangible results from their labor is readily understandable. Yet to settle the question by the immediate building of a chapel seems inadvisable in the face of so much opposition...
...that green grass and college campi are one and inseparable, and when it is proposed to remove a major part of the remaining vestiges of grass, particularly in the Yard, the Vagabond's soul recoils with horror. Controversy there is bound to be over the erection of a new chapel, and the Vagabond does not propose to stay out of the controversy. Here is his suggestion, humbly offered to a can-did world...