Word: worshipfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President and Fellows thus answered the desire of many students, faculty members, and alumni for a more open house of Christian worship in the Yard, a desire expressed over the past three weeks by essays, letters, petitions, and charges stemming from a discussion of "Religion at Harvard" by William W. Bartley III '56 in the CRIMSON of March...
...Throughout its history," the Corporation explained, "Harvard has felt obligated to provide a place of Christian worship for members of the University community. In continuing to do so, the University does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed...
...plot of only 13,500 sq. ft., the Protestant pavilion consists of a prefab circular church that will hold 200 people and a prefab one-story display building. Wide arcs of the church wall are glass, so that the passing crowd will be able to look in upon the worshipers at the two daily services (four on Sundays). "We wanted the public to see what Protestant worship is like," says the Rev. Pieter Fagel of The Netherlands, Evangelical Reformed chairman of the pavilion committee...
...church. Whether it was proper for the memorial to the Harvard dead of all faiths to have been given the form of a Protestant church is not now the issue. The Memorial Church was in fact dedicated as a Protestant church and as such has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery...
Hardly anyone objected on sectarian grounds. It seemed clear that the memorial church was to be a Protestant house of worship; this could be taken for granted from the fact that it directly replaced the old Appleton Chapel which had a strongly Protestant tradition. But the church would have no affiliation with any one Protestant denomination. "The fund for the Chapel," said the Overseers, "shall be solicited upon the express condition that the chapel shall be held as an undenominational trust...