Word: hele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge Antiquarian Society got to work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...
Since then Dean Hanford has kept it for Harvard, and he likes to think of the homely oak block as the symbol of good-will between the two Cambridges and the two great western democracies. When Hele presented it, he also turned over other relics. The wood is kept as a reminder that after the war, the famous Lionel DeJersey Harvard Studentship to Emmanuel will be re-established...
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