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About a ton of magazines and periodicals were collected, most of which came from the Union. These are to be distributed among hospitals, reading rooms and old people's homes in this vicinity. The text books, of which 150 were received, will be placed on the shelves of the Loan Library in Phillips Brooks House. which now contains about 1000 volumes...
There should be no difficulty in raising the necessary funds, if some organization or body of men will take the initiative. Few men who are now in College came into close contact with Dean Shaler, so that the movement must rely for its support mainly upon graduates who had the good fortune to know him personally. Their number is so great, however, that, once a satisfactory project is inaugurated, its success will be assured...
...Gordon was born in Scotland in 1853. He came to this country, and in 1881 graduated from Harvard College. In 1895 he received from the University the honorary degree of S.T.D. He occupied the position of University preacher from 1886 to 1890, and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. He is the author of "The Witness to Immortality," "The Christ of Today," and "Immortality and the New Theodicy...
...graduate of the Boston Latin School, of Harvard College, and of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1859 he became rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, and in 1862 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, also in Philadelphia. He came to Boston in 1869 as rector of Trinity Church, and continued there until his death in 1893. For the last two years of that period he had the additional office of Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts...
...gained this sense must guard against letting it separate him from the crowd: his first duty must be to show other men that they too have a call. That great failure in leadership, Napoleon Bonaparte, had the fault that he saw only his own star of destiny, and there came a time when other men failed to see that star. Men of vocation, to use their power must fit in with other men of vocation. The alliance of Wash- ington and Hamilton: of Lincoln with the members of his cabinet-all men with a strong sense of duty-show that...