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“From College Town to Chinatown” | The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2018 This article directly addresses how the boom in Asian international students (heavily Chinese) has turned numerous U.S. college towns into “quasi-Chinatowns,” with examples of economic benefits from Asian-owned businesses but also vulnerabilities when enrollment drops. It covers the nationwide trend across multiple universities.
Although most closely associated with All Saints’ Day, “For All the Saints” is often sung throughout the year in Anglican churches and collegiate chapels because its theme is not confined to a single feast. It celebrates the Church as a continuing fellowship across generations, encouraging Christians in the ordinary work of discipleship. In that respect, it speaks naturally to the long green season of Ordinary Time
Music is the oldest continuously evolving grammar of ordered relationships in the Western intellectual tradition.
For all the saints, who from their labours rest,
Who thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy Name, O Jesus, be for ever blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O may thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win, with them, the victor’s crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave again and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest;
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of Glory passes on his way.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
Singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!
History of Western Civilization Told Through the Acoustics of its Worship Spaces
“Harvest at Rest” George Cole 1865
“We need the sense of the sacred, and the sense that things transcend our grasp.
We need to know that we are dependent on others,
and that the condition of our existence is the existence of others.”
“View of Eton College Chapel” 1834 William Ingalton
The founding of many education communities is inspired by faith communities. In many of them the place of worship was the very first building. College and university chapels are central places of worship for students, staff and faculty, and provide a space for solitude and reflection. A place for feeling at home in the world.
International Building Code | Section 303.4 Assembly Group A-3
There are several hundred technical standards, or parts of standards, that govern how churches and chapels are made safe and sustainable. Owing to innovations in construction, operation and management methods, those standards move, ever so slightly, on a near-daily basis. They are highly interdependent; confounded by county-level adaptations; and impossible to harmonize by adoption cycle. That movement tracked here as best we can within the limit of our resources and priorities. That’s why it’s best to simply click into our daily colloquia if you have a question or need guidance.
Lights are on in the little Baptist parsonage tonight. pic.twitter.com/RK4W6kjug5
— NYFarmer (@NYFarmer) June 7, 2025
Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi.
The 13th century Eucharistic chant of Ave verum corpus was set to music by Mozart in 1791 to be sung especially to celebrate the feast day.
Here I sing it in the historic chapel of Launde Abbey. #History pic.twitter.com/frkUFkPHVj
— Katie Marshall (@KatieHistory) June 11, 2023
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief | Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris
Taylor University | Grant County Indiana
The image criteria of our WordPress theme does not permit many images of college and university chapels to be shown fully-dimensioned on sliders or widget galleries. We reproduce a few of the outsized images here and leave the complexities of financing, designing, building and maintaining of them in a safe and sustainable manner for another day. CLICK HERE for the links to our Sacred Space Standards workspace.
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Orchard Lake Schools | Oakland County Michigan
Saint Leo University | Pasco County Florida
In the sun-dappled chapel, all 155 new families were welcomed to the start of their Denstone journey. #ItStartsHere pic.twitter.com/veefqSVBGG
— Head | Denstone College (@DenstoneHead) September 3, 2023
Newman University Chapel Dublin
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
— C.S. Lewis
Vilnius University
Mount St. Joseph University | Hamilton County Ohio
The “Dark Ages” produced the most divine vessels of light ever built.
Sainte-Chapelle:pic.twitter.com/B2lPLtWEVx
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) February 12, 2024
Sainte-Chapelle:pic.twitter.com/B2lPLtWEVx
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) February 12, 2024
Marian University Indianapolis
Wittenberg University
Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem
University of San Diego
Augustana University | Minnehaha County South Dakota
Bucknell University Pennsylvania
Carroll College All Saints Chapel Montana
Marquette University Wisconsin
Saint Louis University Missouri
University of St. Thomas Minnesota
Keuka College New York
جامعة الأزهر (الشريف)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
University of Chicago
Thomas Aquinas College California
St. Albans School | District of Columbia
Princeton University
Yale University
Harvard University
Piula Theological College Samoa
Universität zu Lübeck
Wycliffe College
Universitat de Barcelona
Hillsdale College
Liberty University
Gordon College
Colorado University Denver
Walla Walla University / Washington
University of the Incarnate Word / San Antonio, Texas
Pepperdine University / California
University of Kentucky
Loyola Marymount University / Los Angeles, California
Lourdes University
Seton Hall University
Durlston Court Prep School Chapel
Colorado University Denver
Luther College at the University of Regina / Saskatchewan, Canada
계명대학교 / Keimyung University Chapel, South Korea
U.S. Coast Guard Memorial Chapel | New London, Connecticut
Saint John’s University | Photo by Paul Middlestaedt
Trinity College / Hartford, Connecticut
Georgetown University Chapel | Washington, D.C.
Kings College Chapel | Auckland, New Zealand
Brigham Young University / Idaho
Newman University Church / Dublin
Our Lady of the Lake University / San Antonio, Texas
Southern Methodist University | Dallas, Texas
St. John’s College Oxford
United States Naval Academy Chapel
Wellington College Chapel
Fitzwilliam College Chapel Cambridge
Sorbonne Université
West Point | US Army Cadet Chapel
Hebrew Union College
Tuskegee University Chapel
The Spring Hill College Chapel | Mobile, Alabama
Boston University
University of Tennessee at Chattangooga
Wake Forest University
Auburn University Chapel
Davis & Elkins College
University of Tulsa
Randolph College Chapel
Sewanee | The University of the South
King’s College Chapel | University of Cambridge
Hope College | Holland, Michigan
Duke University | Durham, North Carolina
Christ’s Chapel | Hillsdale College, Michigan
Basilica of the Sacred Heart | University of Notre Dame | South Bend, Indiana
Three Faith Chapels | Brandeis University
University of Wroclaw | Jesuit College | Wrocław, Poland
Alma College Chapel | Alma, Michigan
Stanford Memorial Church | Palo Alto, California
Universidad Adventista Templo | Buenos Aires, Argentina
St. Thomas of Villanova University Chapel | Villanova, Pennsylvania
St. Paul’s Chapel | Columbia University | New York City
Scotch College Chapel | Melbourne, Australia
Princeton University Chapel
United States Air Force Cadet Chapel | Colorado Springs
Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne | Paris
Memorial Chapel | Glasgow University | Glasgow, Scotland
Alice Millar Chapel | Northwestern University
Bowdoin College Chapel | Brunswick, Maine
Loyola University Chapel | Madonna della Strada Chicago
Heinz Memorial Chapel | University of Pittsburgh
Madonna University Chapel | Livonia, Michigan
Vassar College Chapel | Poughkeepsie, New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Chapel | Cambridge, Massachusetts
St. Ignatius Church | University of San Francisco
Church of the Resurrection | Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, Indiana
Baughman Center | University of Florida
Exeter College Chapel | Oxford University
More coming.
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Standards Tennessee | Sacred Spaces | Bentley Bell History
For centuries, Sunday bells have called communities from the ordinary
business of the week toward a common hour of worship. On a college campus,
the summons carries across walks, gardens, residence halls and playing
fields, briefly gathering a scattered community by sound.
Some bells mark the hour; others are rung by hand, continuing a practice older than the
institutions around them. The sound requires no screen, notice or
invitation. It simply travels. On a quiet Sunday morning, chapel bells
remain one of the oldest ways an educational settlement announces that
another week is about to begin.
Philanthropy sometimes begins with conversation rather than campaign. In 2002, Donne Bentley Wright of Chattanooga and her husband, Spencer Wright, heard Sewanee registrar Paul Engsberg describe the English change-ringing tradition he had encountered at Durham.
The Wrights offered to fund a ring for Sewanee. Eight bells were cast at London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry on July 4, 2003 and installed in historic Breslin Tower the following year. Named for members of the family, including Donne Wright’s parents, Mildred and George Bentley, the bells became more than a memorial. Students learned to ring them, and every Sunday they still summon the community to worship.
“Non-Cooperative Games” 1951 | John Nash
Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
John Nash’s Recommendation Letter for Princeton University pic.twitter.com/k9TCftyfGs
— Math Files (@Math_files) January 16, 2026
Construction keeps on rocking and rolling on our campus. Soon, music will be filling the halls of the Surack-Sweetwater Music Industry Building. pic.twitter.com/us9Ppj7fNO
— Purdue University Fort Wayne (@purduefw) June 4, 2026
Memorial Union Dining Room
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Welcome back to a new academic year! 🤗
We’re thrilled to see staff and students back on campus and ready for another exciting term. Who’s ready to get started? ✨ pic.twitter.com/cvf9TQhYU8
— University of Southampton (@unisouthampton) September 30, 2024
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Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word,
But as Thou dwell’st with Thy disciples, Lord,
Familiar, condescending, patient, free.
Come not to sojourn, but abide with me.
Come not in terror, as the King of kings,
But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings;
Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea.
Come, Friend of sinners, thus abide with me.
Thou on my head in early youth didst smile,
And though rebellious and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee.
On to the close, O Lord, abide with me.
I need Thy presence every passing hour.
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
History of Western Civilization Told Through the Acoustics of its Worship Spaces
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