Word: transept
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Designed by William Ware, class of 1852 and Henry Van Brunt, class of 1854, in 1878 as a memorial to the Harvard men who died in the Civil War, the transept's tablet-covered walls and central stained glass window will not be altered...
...Memorial Hall focus is underscored by the impending renovations of Alumni Hall, Sanders Theatre and the transept...
...transept, which serves as the Sanders Theatre Jobby, will remain largely intact except for a few issued more quickly once a commit-improvements in lighting and the elimination of the wind tunnel effect which plagues the chamber...
...your page one article on the proposal of "honoring Confederates" in Memorial Hall (March 21, 1988), your writer, Mr. Troyer, cites "a proposal by an emeritus professor to add the names of Harvard's Confederate dead to the celebrated transept at Memorial Hall." As the emeritus professor whom Mr. Troyer consulted, let me correct him by saying that I have never urged commemorating the Harvard Confederate dead in the transept, properly consecrated to Harvard's Union dead. If, as was done in the Memorial Church for Harvard's German dead in World Wars I and II, the names of some...
...dead but all Harvard men who served in the Union forces. But it does seem that after the lapse of more than a century, this condition might be waived, either by the Alumni Association or by legal action, to permit the installation of a memorial elsewhere than in the transept to recognize that Harvard's dead on the Confederate side gave their lives for a cause in which they selflessly believed. Mason Hammond...