Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand alone in the center of the Yard, which was to have a fringe of buildings along the street on all four sides. University was erected in less pretentious form, and the grandoise "fringe" scheme was forgotten when the old Gore Hall Library and the old Appleton Chapel were put on sites now covered (and more) by Widener and the Memorial Church. All these were set like buildings in a park, embowered in fine old trees...
When Italy declared war on the Allies almost four months ago, Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, locked himself up with a project in the Monastery of St. Benedict, 40 miles from Rome. Last week Musician Perosi had completed his self-appointed task, and waited for the Axis (or British) generals to finish theirs. Ready for the proclamation of peace was a Perosi-composed "grandiose Te Deum...
Whereabouts of Their Majesties' own children was officially secret but they were known to be "out of London" and on Sunday Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose went to church with their parents in the Chapel Royal at Windsor Castle. Princess Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect...
...years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...
...chiseled an education from colleges all over the world, including Oxford, and learned 83 different languages and dialects during my travels," the burley adventurer explained. "I hope to discuss law with Dean Landis and to preach a sermon in the Chapel before I leave...