Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benjamin Franklin would never have been admitted to Harvard, declared Harvard's President James Bryan Conant-at the same time conceding that failure to get in would doubtless have made "little or no difference" to him. Speaking at Chapel Hill (see EDUCATION), President Conant recalled that higher education in Poor Richard's time was largely a luxury of the wealthy, and busy-brained Ben lacked both "social and financial status...
...sunny morning, at a North Carolina crossroads marked by a ruined chapel on a hill, a traveler climbed wearily from his horse. There, in the shade of a big poplar tree, William Richardson Davie, the future governor of the state, took a long, cool draught from the jug beside him, and gazed about. "Here," he said to himself, "we will put our new university...
...Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
...super-modernistic Presbyterian Chapel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains at Delaware Water Gap, to be equipped with movable seats and altars, whose arrangement will depend "upon the time of day, the position of the sun and the purpose of the meeting." The tower will contain a water tank...
...Thermal, Calif, chapel, "conceived as an oasis in a desert community," will be built around an open court, which wall be full of green vegetation, and floodlighted at night. The congregation will be able to look at the oasis through a big glass window at the head of the chancel. A cube-shaped "tower" will house machinery tc keep parishioners cool...