Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
...onetime chapel is now Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol (The Theater of the Big Puppets), the greatest horror show on earth. As a tourist attraction, it has ranked for years with the Eiffel Tower, Picasso, and the late maisons de tolerance...
University Hall was more than dining room and undergraduate rioting headquarters. It also contained the President's office, the rooms of the Corporation, the chapel, and a number of class rooms. Classes in those days were called recitations, and the building was full of small, intimate courses featuring professional commands such as "Smith, won't you be so good as to read that passage?" Despite the great opportunity for close contact between faculty and students afforded by these small groups, all efforts to that end failed. For a time some professors gave "socials" in the Corporation rooms...
Located in the middle part of the building and occupying the space of both second and third floors, the chapel was the most famous part of University Hall. The whole building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts. At any rate, it was the chief meeting place of the college, and was always much...
...with the construction of the old Appleton Chapel, the chapel in University Hall was started on a series of transformations which once had it split horizontally and vertically into many small rooms, but which ended in 1896 with the formation of the current Faculty Room and the final elimination of undergraduates from all but occasional and official visits to University Hall. Exactly the same size as the original chapel, this room is where the monthly meetings of the faculty take place. President Conant sits directly beneath the portrait of President Eliot at the head of the round table shown...