Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical test, which is easily administered with little skill or special equipment in now being used all over the country, including the Naval Pre-Flight Training School at Chapel Hill. The personality interview has been used here as a preliminary test for Harvard V-1 candidates...
...Seniors will have to be up by 11 o'clock for the Baccalaureate and Chapel services conducted by Dean Sperry in the Widener quadrangle. A new addition to the Commencement exercises that begin at 2 o'clock, will be the presentation of commissions to members of the Naval Science department. Alumni president Walter S. Gifford will speak before the past graduates later in the afternoon...
...mania was called St. Vitus's dance because a visit to the saint's chapel sometimes worked a cure. The modern medical name for it is tarantism, after the wild Italian folk dance, the tarantella. The Italians have a common belief that the tarantella drives out the poison of a tarantula's bite by causing perspiration, and that the dance was named for the spider. Actually, both dance and spider were named for the city of Taranto, which was hit hard by the dancing mania...
...Harvard and Williams and Co. was arranged yesterday morning by Floyd Stahl and "Whitey" Fuller, former Dartmouth press agent who handles publicity for the Amherst station. The naval trainees have all been graduated from the Amherst school, but they are now marking time before reporting for further study to Chapel Hill, N. C. The boys, who haven't played any formal games this year, asked for a contest before going South, and the Harvard battle was put through...
...tentative schedule for the day calls for the traditional rites to begin at 2:30 o'clock, followed by a buffet supper and the annual Senior Spread in the evening. Thursday morning's activities will include a combined Baccalaureate sermon and regular church services in Appleton Chapel...