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...time museum, court house, army barracks, navy storehouse, lumber room and fire house, Holden Chapel, the Glee Club's present home, has hardly filled its donors wish: to promote "true Religion, I mean Sobriety, Righteousness and Godliness." For over a century, Harvard students had worshipped in private, until 1744 when Samuel Holden left 400 pounds "to build a Chapple for the use of ye College." But after just twenty years, services moved to Harvard Hall and Holden began its secular marathon...
...meeting place across the Charles. Since Holden was empty, it was selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...
After a short stint as a lumber shed, it housed the local fire engine, bought just after Harvard Hall burned to the ground. The Faculty voted, in 1779, "that Kendal be directed to see that the College Engine and Bucketts be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." Undergraduate Kendal set to work and organized the Engine Society "for exercising the Engine." And for over forty years, the Engine Society watched all major blazes, invariably doing more harm than good...
Tacked to the bulletin board in the entranceway was the weekly announcement of services in Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church. The bald man was drawn to its list of preachers. "I wonder how many of these . . . ." he said...
...residence as a 150 dollar double, but the Key men thought this would be too much horse play. As the guides added witty commentary, my conscientious friends printed "Finely's house not $150 double" on his note pad. The leader showed us the fabulous Eliot grille and then the chapel, "for any of you that are religious." And so on to Kirkland...