Word: antioch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Antioch, 3 Haverford...
John McClellan Prather, A. B. Antioch Coll., O., 1891, A. B. Harvard Univ., 1894; III yr. Graduate School; Biology; in place of Bruce Fink (Botany) resigned...
...entered Harvard and graduated in the class of 1843. In 1845, after two years at the Divinity School, he became pastor of the Unitarian Church in Waltham, where he worked for fourteen years, much be loved by his parishioners. In 1859 he accepted the offer of the presidency of Antioch College in Ohio, to succeed Horace Mann. While president of Antioch he also performed the duties of pastor of the Church of the Redeemer in Cincinnati. On Feb. 26, 1862, Dr. Felton died, and on Oct. 6 Dr. Hill succeeded him as president of the University. He served until Sept...
...Hill delivered addresses before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard on "Liberal Education" (1858), and on "The Opportunities of Life" at Antioch (1860). He edited Eberty's "The Stars and the Earth" (1849), and published "Christmas, and Poems on Slavery" (1843), "Geometry and Faith" (1849), "First Lessons in Geometry" (1854), "Second Book In Geometry" (1862), "Jesus, the Interpreter of Nature, and Other Sermons" (1859), "Practical Arithmetic" (1881), and contributions to numerous periodicals, mathematical and astronomical journals, and religious newspapers...
Paul's speeches were delivered for the most part while on his mission tours, and are ten in number. The two longest are those delivered at Antioch and at Athens. In all cases but one he spoke in Greek, and while there is sometimes a lack of that smoothness and polish found in the classical writers, there is at all times a force and directness of speech which is very impressive...