Word: holden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College...
...Revolution of the General Court of Massachusetts, protesting against the quartering of soldiers in Boston, was "rusticated" to Cambridge where the House held forth in Holden Chapel during the last years of its service under the British flag. Then the war came and Harvard was in the very midst of it. Holden became a barracks, housing no less than 160 men. When the soldiers left the chapel was little better than a ruin...
...Commonwealth Armory. This is the last game which the team will play before the Intercollegiate games in New York, and the last game of the Indoor Polo League Championships, which has been won by the 110th Cavalry. HARVARD 101st ARTILLERY No. 1--Henry Shaw '28 Furber No. 2--Holden White '28 Needham Back R. A. Pickerton '27 Pitman
This chart, drawn up in 1922, but never before made public, is printed at the bottom of this page. With two exceptions the buildings shown in black are now in use; and those shaded are proposed for construction in the near future. The Holden Twins and the new Bursar's office, shown in the center of the map are already under construction, whereas the new chemical laboratory on the site of Boylston Hall and the Memorial in the center of the Yard are still on paper, although depicted as already built...
Other news of the week, according to the "Magenta" of fifty years ago included a meeting of the Freshman class in Holden Chapel to vote on the question of sending a crew to the intercollegiate regatta, a plan that was approved; the interesting statement that "Yale is interested in the welfare of our Chess Club;" the election of Mr. W. F. Weld as Captain of the Matthews Boat Club, and the election of A. L. Lowell to the second vice-presidency of the Cercle Francais...