Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadly outlined, the arrangements call for another staircase to Harvard Hall, probably on the longitudinal side facing Holden Chapel, and for Sever a new outside fire escape to relieve the present ladder which has been judged inadequate...
...class. But when several Northampton residents once complained that his girls should pull their shades down at night before undressing, President Neilson observed that they should pull down their own instead. Once a particularly conspicuous wave of amatory misbehavior moved Smith's administration to call a compulsory chapel. President Neilson appeared, cocked his head to one side, and instead of delivering the expected lecture remarked: "If you must kiss men, you will do well to pick gentlemen. They never tell...
...second day will be devoted to a model sitting of the Court as it is today. This meeting, to be held in Holden Chapel, will be barred to all under 65 years of age, and at it students will take turns in handing down decisions. The best opinion, if accompanied by 25 wrappers, or reasonably accurate facsimiles, will win a prize of two tickets to the coming Wellesley-Dunster House wrestling match (called on account of rain at 1 o'clock this morning--Ed.) but the second prize was cancelled after a meeting with officials of the University appointed...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham...
...Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story...