Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another occasion . . . Cole went to the British Museum and somehow procured some ancient ecclesiastical vestments. Dressed in these robes, and taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...
Last week, in the $1.5 million chapel where Hummers meet for prayer and hymns, but where no minister has ever set foot, Harry Truman ended his visit to the Hum. After a happy day "knee-high in boys," he had tried Hum-Muds-the college's special ginger cakes. Then he ad-libbed nostalgically of the days when he was a boy and milked cows, split wood, cleaned oil lamps. Things were different now: "this great country has only started on its career . . . Oh," cried the President, "I wish I were 18 . . . I wish I had the same opportunities...
Last week, Composer Harris' Mass was finally performed-but not at St. Pat's. Music lovers trekked uptown to Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel to hear the Princeton Chapel Choir sing it. Composer Harris had cluttered up the program with his usual pious phrases about American music ("All the materials have been extracted from prototypes of American folk songs"). Some of the new Mass sounded more like monkish Plainsong. But there was plenty of power, freshness and vigor, and surprisingly little of Harris' usual repetitiousness...
...Casey calls himself "an ex-scholar," but he still teaches. Almost every undergraduate takes "Casey's Lit," a course that rambles amiably from Dante to Spenser to whatever pops into Casey's head. At his weekly talk in chapel, students still "wood" him (stamp their feet in applause). And after big games, they still gather about his Colonial house and yell "We want Casey!" until he emerges, beaming and blushing...
...sets of ushers to serve at Radcliffe's Baccalaureate exercises in Memorial Chapel on Sunday, June 6, and at Commencement ceremonies in Sanders Theater on Wednesday, June 9, were named yesterday at the Cliffe. They will be directed in their activities by Mrs. John F. Maguire, college marshal, and Joan McPartin '49, head usher...