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...offer both protest and commendation for your article of the 23rd regarding Holden Chapel; commendation, that at least something has been printed about this most unusual building, and protest against such a trivlai and inaccurate handling of the subject...
...money for Holden Chapel was not given by Mr. Holden in his will, as you stated in your article, but by his widow and daughters, through the exertions of Thomas Hutchinson, H. C. '27, later governor of Massachusetts. The money, 400 pounds sterling, as Mrs. Holden had remarked to Hutchinson at the time of the gift, was not sufficient to complete the Chapel, and so, after the foundations, walls, roofing and plastering had used up the funds, a year elapsed before sufficient money could be raised to finish the interior woodwork, pews etc. Whether Mrs. Holden gave the extra funds...
...Holden was used for morning and evening prayers until 1766 when the chapel in Harvard Hall was ready for "Devotions, lectures, and exhibitions, ornamented with two handsome brass chandeliers...
...should say about $4.50 maybe," was the estimate of small John J. Holden, 39, of how much money he had ever owned at one time. For four years, since he lost his job in a knitting mill, he had earned almost nothing. He lived with his old mother in a ramshackle little house in Newton, Mass. Lately he put 3¢ on a number lottery, used his winnings to buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. When he heard that his ticket had won him $75,000 he thought first of an automobile, a store, some new clothes, college for the twin boys...
...Professor of Public Speaking, yesterday revealed intentions of the English department to begin soon making voice recordings of each member of the Freshman class. Made possible through the generosity of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers for the English Department, the work will be carried on in Holden Chapel during the remainder of the academic year...