Word: severance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varied estimates both as to cost and extent of the building. One has placed the expense at $800,000, while another, estimating a cost of $1,300,000, proposed a Chapel of 2,000 capacity, extending from near Thayer Hall at the West end to a line parallel to Sever at the East. To carry out this plan, which includes a large tower, it would be necessary to remove not only the present Appleton Chapel, but also Old Fogg Art Museum...
...Annex, in order that a building in the customary bulldog posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would be even more preposterous than the three Wigglesworths of Massachusetts Avenue...
Dante and the Renaissance, Dr. Spencer, Sever...
...around the corners of his room. And then, pinned up on his daily calendar, he espied a way out of it all. He had found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour. The Vagabond breathed his wonted sigh. Like...
...Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, Gray, Cowper", Professor Greenough, Sever...