Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conformance with the wishes of his widow, the memorial service for Alfred North Whitehead hold at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon dispensed with all eulogy. A throng of over 300 friends and admirers led by President Conant attended the service...
...Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...
...early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus a sturdy character, for three times as Prime Minister he ruled a Britain that distrusted brilliance...
...Dreamer. Bob Mize sees it differently: "If I had to give up the spiritual side of the Home, I'd just as soon give it all up." For 15 minutes in the morning and 10 at night the boys attend compulsory chapel services. And the spiritual effort is far more than "bending marrow bones." Perhaps Mize's most revolutionary practice is his emphasis on forgiveness, rather than discipline...
...Sunday services at the nondenominational Chapel on the base, just before his holiday ended, he found a poem on the program: "Be strong: We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; we have hard work to do, and loads to lift." Next day he returned to a rainy Washington...