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...architects, claiming that it was impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt them to speaking, and hardly left the University a chance to say no. In order to prevent the reverberation and echoes of the speaker's voice, the ceiling of the nave was finished in rough plaster, and a heavy carpet, lying on a three-quarter inch hemp padding, was laid down in the aisles...
...demanded the keys. The superintendent had none. "Shall we break in?" asked Rector Dodd. "Yes!" said the Bishop loudly and firmly, adding that church law and civil law sanctioned him. Rector Dodd had with him a lock smith. While Bishop Manning waited, they went through the basement, sanctuary and nave, removing hinges, picking locks, at last smashing the padlock on the front gates of the church. "You are all welcome," beamed the rector, and all entered. Bishop Manning stepped to a footstool beneath the scaffolding, preached firmly on the rights of the rector to serve his neighborhood, ending, "I request...
With the exception of the hanging of lights, the placing of tablets, and a few other matters of decoration, the nave of the building is now completed, in readiness for the services this morning. Although electricians are still working on the organ, the gift of Ralph Isham in memory of his son, Albert Keep Isham '15, enough pipes are connected to enable the playing of ordinary hymns...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...unnecessary," said the Work Banker, "to emphasize the havoc wrought by this vast movement of liquid funds . . . which was increased rather than reduced by the warning implied in Mr. Hoover's proposal ... or to dwell upon the stagnation resulting from the magnitude of the sums immobilized. They nave contributed each their part to the persistent fall of prices and they have accentuated the deflationary forces which are oppressing world economy...