Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DIVINITY SCHOOL.For the year 1886-87, two resident Fellowships of $500 each are offered to graduates of Theological Schools who intend to devote themselves to the Christian ministry. These fellowships are intended to encourage advanced theological work of a high order. Applications, accompanied by testimonials and specimens of work, must be made to the Acting Dean, Rev. Francis G. Peabody, before June...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Possibly many who have marked the change in the name of the Christian Brethren to the "Young Men's Christian Association" have not considered some of the grounds for this move. One of the strongest is the fact that to join the "Young Men's Christian Association" you must be a member of an evangelical church. So in future Unitarians are to be shut out of a society which they have long upheld. It is fairly evident then that the undergraduate clique of Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists has come to the belief that it is the "sole...
...Society of Christian Brethren, which by the way was one of the four oldest societies of Harvard College, is "now a thing of the past." Founded in 1802. its life has extended over eighty-four years. This life was ended by the vote which we announced yesterday. In next year's Index will be found the list of some eighty or a hundred men, headed, not "The Christian Brethren," but "The Harvard Young Men's Christian Association." The change in name and in constitution has been made, we understand, after much consideration and debate...
...meeting last evening, by an almost unanimous vote the Society of Christian Brethren decided to drop its present name and become a branch of the Inter collegiate...
...will be remembered that lately a committee was appointed to consider the religious interests of the college, and to make a report which should include the subject of chapel attendance. At the session yesterday, only a part of the report was presented, - a recommendation that the Plummer Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business it was to look after them, have been somewhat irregular...