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...that I could preach a better sermon than those that I had been brought up with. Professor James Hardy Ropes, a father of a classmate of ours, was my faculty adviser. I didn't see him much, and I think he gave up on me. I went voluntarily to Appleton Chapel a few times and listened to President Lowell read the scriptures. My father, who was of the Class of 1901, had had to go to chapel every morning. President Eliot read the Bible lessons in those days. By the time of the November hour exams I was so busy...
During his pastorate the church school was begun and women were allowed to worship in Appleton Chapel...
McCoy Tyner--Lulu White, 3 Appleton St., Boston...
...large body of the Democrats who nominated Pierce in a steamy Baltimore convention didn't want him to be President any more than did Jane Appleton Pierce. It took three days and 49 ballots, and they ended with a Northerner who by some bizarre logic found that the Constitution allowed Southern states to practice "involuntary servitude." Pierce's presidency went downhill from that trough...
...time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard to St. Paul's appearance at Mars Hill. So taken was the University with his measured address that he received an LL. D. degree at 1893 Commencement. Of the lectures themselves, the Boston Pilot, a weekly Catholic newspaper...