Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People came out of the Chapel, across the Yard. Vag slipped down to one group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights above the sidewalk were dim if you set them against the Dipper, high and very bright indeed...
...high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced...
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill...
...campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...
...monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door and suggested little beyond the threshold...