Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paul's Society held its first meeting of the year last night in 17 Grays. The committees on order of services and Christ Church sermons made their reports. The committee in charge of the Freshman reception, to be held October 14, have secured Bishop Lawrence as a speaker...
...members of the Board of Preachers for the coming year are: Bishop John H. Vincent, of Topeka, Kansas (Methodist Episcopal); Rev. S. M. McConnell, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Protestant Episcopal); Rev. P. S. Moxom, of Springfield, Mass. (Congregational); Rev. George Hodges, D. D., of Cambridge (Protestant Episcopal); Rev. W. W. Fenn, of Chicago, III. (Unitarian...
...Saviour's Church, which is situated in Wellington street, on the south, or Surrey, side of the English capital, is the oldest of the London churches. When it was built in the thirteenth century by Gifford, bishop of Winchester, it formed a part of the Augustinian Priory of St. Mary Overy, But in 1540 it was converted by Henry VIII into a parish church, and it has retained that character ever since. Reputed heretics were tried in the Lady Chapel in 1555, during the reign of "bloody" Queen Mary. In 1840 the old nave was taken down and an incongruous...
Commencement Day is Tuesday the 23d. The exercises will be opened with a prayer by Bishop Lawrence. Mrs. Alexander Agassiz, the President of Radcliffe, and President Eliot will speak. The degrees will then be awarded the graduating class, which contains some thirty members...
...first day of the Cambridge celebration was the meeting in Sanders Theatre in the evening, at which there were fully 1500 people present. Dr. John Fiske '63, was the orator of the evening. Other speakers were President Eliot, Reverend Dr. Alexander Mackenzie '59, Hon. John Read '62, and Bishop Lawrence '71. The Cambridge Orchestra rendered a variety of selections at intervals during the evening...