Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of the Yard stands the University's traditional maid-of-all-work, Holden Chapel. This small, rectangular structure of pure Georgian architecture has been the scene, during its 200-odd years of existence, of the birth of the Medical School, the near-death of Harvard's greatest President, and midnight raids by students seeking decorations for their rooms among the specimens in the anatomical museum...
...twenty years it was used as a chapel, and when the Continental troops took over "the colledge" it was utilized as a court room for court martials. Later it housed 160 of these rough-and-ready soldiers who so ruined it that it was fit only for a combination lumber room, College carpenter shop, and fire house...
Even now, the Chapel is fulfilling its age-old use as the College catch-all, for Professor Packard holds his public speaking classes here...
Holding up the records of Harvard men in the wars of the past, as seen by the assemblage of names in Mem Hall, Appleton Chapel and the Treasure Room, the former mentor of History 1 called on the present generation of Harvard men not to let the "fair name of Harvard down...
Speaking before a gathering in Memorial Chapel yesterday morning, President Conant pledged the University to turning out talented men determined to devote themselves to the preservation of their freedom...