Word: holden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steering course 017 from the Square and holding, it for three minutes you find Holden Chapel close on the starboard bow. A small brick building, beautifully proportioned, it is one of the University's most nearly perfect examples of Georgian architecture...
...Samuel Holden of London, granted 400 pounds "to build a Chapple for Use of ye College" at Cambridge. Finally completed in 1744, it might possibly challenge Christ Church's claim of being the oldest church building in Cambridge...
...only twenty years, however, was it actually in use as a chapel for in 1769 the Royal Governor transferred the General Court to Cambridge and the House convened in Holden Chapel. Here, James Qtis delivered one of his most effective orations. Later, Colonial troops were barracked in it. Then in 1783 Dr. Joseps Warren those it as the home of the infant Harvard Medical School. Next, an an anatomical museum, its history was characterized by undergarduate raids in search of human skulls--highly prized as room ornaments. As a chemical laboratory it was the scene of a near tragedy when...
...noted a History One syllabus under the youth's arm. "These Freshmen are getting younger and younger each term," he exclaimed. The incident quickly slipped from his mind as he headed towards Mass. Hall, and then turned in between Hollis and Harvard. As he passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...
...Holden Chapel was then cut up into six rooms and became the site for undergraduate recitations until its excessive dampness discouraged further use in this line...