Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanence of a Memorial Church demands that it harmonize with the Harvard of the future. Mr. Paine had this in view when he guessed that the erection of new units along the river front will bring a shift in the center of Harvard population, and suggested the location of the new chapel in accordance with this trend. Further, the correlative elimination of the difficulties of reconciling any style of architecture with the surroundings in which a substitute for Appleton Chapel would find itself clearly supports his argument...
...story of Duster's dismissal from the College has generally been related as an instance of Puritan bigotry and intolerance. Dunster, since his arrival, had been an orthodox Calvinist and member of the Cambridge Church but by careful study he reached the conclusion, some time in 1653, that the baptism of infants was unauthorized by scripture. Accordingly he refused to present for baptism his son who was horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today...
...wise frankly to reconsider the location of the War Memorial Church...
...there are to be one or two or three "small college" groups of buildings erected in the near future and placed probably along the river front, from the Freshman dormitories eastwards, a splendid site will be available for the new Church Situated on the Memorial Driveway, on the banks of the Charles, it can be given a worthy and imposing setting...
Such a relocation of the Memorial Church will render unnecessary the destruction of Appleton Chapel, which apparently would, to some, have been the cause of unhappiness, and will therefore permit of services without interruption until the new Church is ready, and perhaps, most happily of all, will stop the attempt to solve what is probably impossible, namely, to erect on the site of Appleton a suitable and beautiful Memorial Church that will architecturally harmonize with the several surrounding conflicting types of architecture and at the same time not be dwarfed by the tremendous mass of Widener...