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...other, composed mainly of white boys, from 12 to 18 years of age, meets three times a week and has a membership of from thirty to forty boys. Little impromptu entertainments are given the boys every week by students. The society has also undertaken work among the sailors in Charlestown, in connection with the Sailor's Haven on Water street. They have engaged to provide entertainment for the sailors on several Wednesday evenings during the winter...
...Ellis was born in Boston in 1814. He graduated at Harvard in the class of 1833, and at the Divinity School in 1836, and after two years travel in Europe was ordained as pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church, Charlestown, Mass. In 1850 he became a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard on which he served for four years. Harvard presented him with the degree of D.D, in 1857, and in 1883 that of LL.D. From 1857 until 1863 he was professor of systematic theology in the Harvard Divinity School...
Rufus William Sprague, Jr., of Charlestown...
...Committee on City Missions is desirous to carry on the mission among the sailors in the Boston and Charlestown harbors. It is expected to enlist in this work a body of men, ten of whom will go out every Sunday morning to hold short meetings among the sailors. These ten men will meet also on Saturday night in Holden Chapel to make general preparations. Every man will be required to give from two to three hours on two successive Sundays, while no man will be called for three times in succession...
That branch of the mission work known as "sailor work" was thoroughly organized at the beginning of the college year, and every Sunday morning since then, when the weather has permitted, a delegation of from four to six students has gone over to Charlestown or Boston and conducted religious services either on the docks or on board vessels lying in the harbor...