Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheeler's suggestion for making Memorial Hall into a chapel in memory of the Harvard dead in the late war is interesting in that it reflects the need for action on the War Memorial question. A committee is now considering the ways and means for building a suitable tribute: if it does not soon announce its decision some one will place an obelisk on the roof of Sever Hall...
...Wheeler contends that Memorial Hall is suitable because it has a cathedral exterior and can be easily remodeled inside. He finds it shameful that such a building should play so little part in the daily life of the student, and sees no objection to combining the memorials to the dead of two wars under one roof. He also puts forward the prominent position of the structure as an argument for making it the new chapel...
Then again, granted that Memorial Hall has a prominent position, there is no cause for emphasizing that prominence. The cathedralesque exterior of which Mr. Wheeler speaks is an architectural monstrosity, an abortive blot on the landscape. The new memorial should at least be pleasant to look upon...
That Memorial Hall be renovated to become the chapel memorial for the men of the University who were killed in the world war, is the plea of H. M. Wheeler '06 in a recent letter to President Lowell. Mr. Wheeler, a manufacturer of Wake-field, Massachusetts, has brought forward the suggestion as being a solution to the problem of the new war memorial which is being considered by the members of the corporation...
...have made a study of the liquor question. Or it may be that the aroma of evaporating foam wafted to nostrils that are sensitive enough betrays the worthlessness of the beverage. But until these possibilities are established there remains a very grave question. Is it possible that Mr. Wheeler could have tasted the Ontario beer...