Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past is to be seen. If history is concerned "to say everything is dead," Boston is historical. Besides the monuments and museums, and the frigate Constitution, there are dozens of graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, and King's Chapel Cemetery. The Burial Ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population, but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping...
...been in the field longest, and their retreats tend to be more ascetic than those of other denominations. Near Brighton, Mich, the Episcopal Church supports a training center called Parishfield (capacity: 35), whose retreat schedule is typical of that in many Episcopalian retreat houses. Rising is at 6:30, chapel service at 7, breakfast at 7:30. The rule of silence is maintained until 8, when members of the community assist in cleaning rooms, washing dishes, etc. Group Bible study is at 9, followed by discussion of the Biblical texts at 9:30. At 10:30 there is a coffee...
...South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...
...Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color...
...college reunion is inevitably a nostalgic affair, but for many old grads who assembled in the Amherst College chapel one day last week, the reunion brought back more than memories of student high jinks, flunked exams and eccentric professors. In the pulpit, conducting chapel service just as he had done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show -as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still very much the maverick...