Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five honorary members were elected, including John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The citation: ". . . His active interest in architecture is incarnated in the restoration of the cathedral of Rheims, the chapel of the University of Chicago . . . the American building in Luxor and the restoration of the city of Williamsburg, Va.. a project unprecedented in its scope and cost and unlimited in its possibilities as an inspiration in good architecture, patriotism and citizenship. . . ." Honorary membership was also conferred on Professor William Archer Rutherford Goodwin (William & Mary), historian & archeologist who supervised the Williamsburg restoration. The Institute's Fine Arts Medal was bestowed...
...blossom on an old religious plant which Bishop William Thomas Manning blessed in Manhattan last week when he dedicated the Chapel of our Savior in a 13-story annex of the Seamen's Church Institute (founded 1843). The whole annex will be dedicated next autumn. Then the institute will be using structures which cost $5,000,000.* It is 75% selfsupporting. Voluntary subscriptions make up the rest. It is organizations like Seamen's Church Institute which get the money collected after the "ship's concert" on ocean liners...
...Reverend Gaius Glenn Atkins, professor of Homiletics and Sociology Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, New York will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning...
...editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than in anger, may go unheard; but the morning curses, still unuttered, of Freshmen, still...
...Yard, some voice should be raised for the still inarticulate students of the future who otherwise will have to listen for an indefinite number of years to the ringing of the seven o'clock bell in Harvard Hall. Dusty records seem to agree that in past centuries, chapel was held so early that a seven o'clock bell was necessary. Since then, compulsory chapel has been abolished, and those that do attend. And eight-thirty a satisfactory time to get up. Still the seven o'clock bell persists, hanging on from one decade to another, one of the nuisance traditions...