Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assault and capture of Chatel-Chehery on October 7. While organizing his command there for a further advance against the enemy, he was mortally wounded. About 7 A. M. a fragment of shell struck him in the neck, breaking a cervical vertebra. In the evening he called for a chaplain and asked him to read some verses from the Bible. When the chaplain had finished reading, he exclaimed, "That's great stuff, isn't it?" Shortly afterward, at 2 A. M., Colonel Shannon died. He was buried with full military honors, with several of his classmates and intimate friends present...
...George Adam Smith, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University, Scotland, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. Smith, who was for some time a chaplain on active service with the British Expeditionary Forces in France, has been sent to this country under the auspices of the National Committee on Churches and the Moral Aims of the War, with the official sanction of the Department of Public Information of the British Foreign Office...
...large congregations which filled the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to capacity, and in both cases crowds almost as large as the audiences themselves were turned away long before the service began. The Archbishop is a Fellow and Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was honorable chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was appointed to his present high position of Archbishop of York...
...remainder of the Sanders Theatre program is to be given as previously announced. The Oration will be delivered by A. G. Paine '17, and the Ode by J. D. Parson '17. President Lowell has consented to act as chaplain. There will be appropriate music between the numbers on the program...
...Reverend Charles H. Gardener, D.D., chaplain of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 o'clock in order to permit students to reach their classes at that hour...