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This decision, perhaps the most significant since compulsory chapel was abolished in 1886, was framed as a realization that "the Harvard community is today a mixed society...
...Corporation's decision to open Memorial Church to private services of non-Protestant religions is a welcome one. While not so significant as the 1886 decree ending compulsory chapel, this latest addition to religious policy reaffirms the University's liberal tradition...
...design the pavilion. On a 153,000-sq. ft. plot just across from the U.S. pavilion, they built a high plaster wall around Civitas Dei. Inside is a slope-roofed church with a capacity for 2,500 standees (only the aged and infirm may sit), a 200-seat chapel and six smaller chapels. The pavilion also includes a restaurant for 2,000 and a three-story display building. Besides numerous Masses and multilingual confessors, attractions will include a 40-yd. mock-up of the catacombs, an exhibit of "the vital problems that frighten mankind" (which includes two gigantic U.S. dollar...
Another statement on the matter in a distinctly different vein, was made yesterday morning by the Rev. Joseph Barth, minister of King's Chapel, a Unitarian church in Boston attended by many influential friends of the University. Barth, speaking on the Biblical sentence, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd," called upon Memorial Church "to welcome differences into itself... in the method of a covenant among the differing with all to use the chapel in freedom...
Barth claimed that the University's only alternative to this is to "welcome to its territory in Harvard Yard all such religious institutions representing the student body as are effectively excluded from the use of the memorial chapel...