Word: transept
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of putting in the new window at the north end of the Memorial transept has been begun. The old window is being torn out and it is expected that the new window will be in place by Commencement...
...north end of the transept was chosen, for though the window will miss the southern light, it will be seen immediately on entering the door nearest the College Yard. It has been Mrs. Whitman's aim to make the window in keeping with the memorial feeling of scholar and soldier. She has chosen red as the dominent color of the window because it is to commemorate war, is a rich color such as a north window needs, and stands especially for Harvard...
While the reasons of the Corporation for tabooing the news stand in the Memorial Transept are now generally appreciated, there is still a tendency to blame the H. D. A. Committee for not allowing Alexander to continue as news agent inside the Hall. As a matter of fact this is not in the power of the Committee. Not only have the Corporation discountenanced a news stand in the Transept, but they have also refused to allow the Association to lease the privilege of selling papers in the Hall...
...seems only fair to the Executive Committee of the Harvard Dining Association to explain their position in regard to the new regulation forbidding sale of papers and periodicals in the Memorial Transept. Some time ago the Corporation voted that the sale of papers in the hall should be stopped entirely, and communicated their decision to the president of the H. D. A., who laid it before the committee. The committee feeling that such a regulation would entail great inconvenience, protested against the vote and proposed a compromise. The Corporation, convinced that a news stand in the Memorial Transept was eminently...
...Committee have acted for the best throughout, and if there is to be criticism are not the ones to receive it. It does not seem to us, however, that there are grounds for criticism. It is easy to understand how inappropriate, almost sacrilegious, a news stand in the Memorial Transept must seem to many of those in the generation ahead of the college man of today, and further the new arrangement promises to entail no inconvenience. It will be just as easy to buy inside the door as outside, quite luxurious to have the papers brought to one's table...