Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...designed primarily to train ministers for service in the hamlets of Puritan New England. But long before President Eliot expanded the college into a modern university it had broken from those early ecclesiastical traditions, and with further development that spirit has been lost almost entirely. In a measure the career of the Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, recreates the atmosphere of early Harvard. Graduating from the college in 1871 and receiving his ministerial degree at the Episcopal Theological School he has at once reached the highest honors in his profession and achieved distinction as professor, author, and educator...
...with Harvard as student and Fellow makes Bishop Lawrence an excellent interpreter of the problems facing the undergraduate who plans to enter the ministry; and his long experience in that profession makes his judgement of its opportunities of unusual value to the man who is undecided as to his career. And the ministry with its requirement of unselfish devotion to church and congregation and its incommensurate rewards in the luxuries of life is a profession which more than any other demands an inspiring interpreter...
Bishop Lawrence has had a long and distinguished career. From 1884 to 1893 he was professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, in 1893 he was consecrated bishop of Massachusetts, ever since then, outside of his official duties, he was devoted his time to historical studies and the writing of numerous books. He received his degree of S.T.D. at Hobart College in 1890, and at Harvard in 1893, and was awarded honorary degrees of L.L.B. at Princeton and at Lawrence University, and of D.D. at Durham, Yale, and Columbia. Besides being a member...
...Consider now the sources of my career as a teacher. The sources were in the times. In that wonderful period of human history in which my whole career was laid. Think of it. When I was going on as a teacher in Harvard, the great prophets and exponents of experimental science were taking possession of that great field. Think how the philosophers of the world were preaching attention to the individual preaching the immense variety of human nature. Think how James Russell Lowell was telling us that democracy must not only raise the average mass, but it must give...
...Wilson writes in the "New York Times," "For prolongation such a career has few, if any, parallels in the world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From...