Word: pewse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The 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...
In 1783, the Harvard Medical School was started by Dr. John Warren '71, and the raised pews of the Chapel made an almost perfect amphitheatre for him for nineteen years. In 1802 the chapel was divided into two stories with a staircase well added on the East or Yard side...
The interior, according to bills and contemporary writers was quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of...
An electric gong signaled the beginning of the concert. An attendant notified Mrs. Coolidge and she straightened her leopard shawl, took her usual place four pews from the front. Of the quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three...
Filling Pews