He swore that the devil possessed her.

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John Harvard Says:

One would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College."

On the eve of the Revolution of the General Court of Massachusetts, protesting against the quartering of soldiers in Boston, was "rusticated" to Cambridge where the House held forth in Holden Chapel during the last years of its service under the British flag. Then the war came and Harvard was in the very midst of it. Holden became a barracks, housing no less than 160 men. When the soldiers left the chapel was little better than a ruin.

A new era dawned upon Holden and upon Harvard in 1783, when the first professional school came into being. For thirty years the Medical School held its meetings in Holden Chapel. Harvard had new become a university! There was a time when that little box of a building housed the Medical School, the Chemistry and Physics Laboratories, such as they were, and four recitation rooms, one for each of the college classes. This was Holden in its heyday of which Edward Everett wrote "the Chapel was Holden" the entire university." But as new buildings were added Holden sank once more into obscurity and neglect, from which it has not recovered to this day.

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The Junior Prom turned out to be an affair where Juniors were prominent but not predominant.