Princeton's Chapel

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors!"

These words were addressed by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University, in a loud voice, to a pair of oak doors. He knocked loudly on the doors three times and a squeaky little voice was heard coming from the inside. Soon the doors opened and a face, under a little red cap, thrust itself between them. This was the face of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram. The doors were those of the new, huge, Gothic Chapel designed by Architect Cram and built at a cost of $2,000,000, for Princeton students to worship in. The chapel, larger than all other college chapels except that at King's College,* Cambridge, was being dedicated last week with properly pretentious medieval ceremony when the knocking and opening occurred. After the dedication, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa., sang Bach's "Mass in B Minor."

In addition to giving the money for the chapel, Princeton's friends had raised $200,000 to pay for a man to go with it. The friends in this case were the mem bers of the family of twin brothers, now dead, who were graduated from Princeton in 1877, Judge Walter Lloyd-Smith and the Rev. Wilton Merle-Smith. The man was Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, intelligent, eloquent Congregationalist lately of Holyoke, Mass. For him the new office of Dean of the Chapel was created. Hitherto Princeton, traditionally Presbyterian, has had no official pastor.

-Called "most beautiful building in England."