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Wanted. A Lay Reader at Christ Church. He must be a Communicant in the Episcopal Church. One who can sing (tenor or baritone) especially desired, that he may also assist in the choir, The rector may be consulted further in reference to the position, after any service at the church, or on week-days at the Rectory (13 Follen St.) between 1 and 2 p.m. James F. Spalding...
...impressive scene in the old church, and one which called up many memories. On this very spot and in a church of the same name, Ruprecht I five hundred years before dedicated the university to religion and knowledge. The building was filled to the last man possible. The oration was a masterly production, and was delivered in a manner befitting the great occasion. Like all Germans, Doctor Fisher is nothing if not exhaustive; and in the course of the two hours and a half that he occupied. he succeeded in exhausting, not only his subject but his entire audience...
...next meeting of the "Union Woman Suffrage Convention" will be held at the First Universalist Church, Lafayette Square, Main street, Cambridgeport. Excellent music will be furnished by Mrs. Ole Bull, who will play Norwegian Folks Songs on the piano...
Referring to a department of the college in which I am more closely interested - you all doubtless know that compulsory morning prayers have been abolished during the past year, as compulsory church-attendance had been some time before. I do not see how we could have disregarded the movement which was set on foot - a practically unanimous movement; since 900 names were attached to the petition requesting the change, - and not a movement begun in haste and dictated by the whim of the moment; for the agitation upon the subject among the young men in college has been going...
...benediction was given by the Rev. Dr. Ripley; and, on leaving the church, the procession was formed in the same order as when it entered. The classes of the Alumni were again summoned, and solemn pauses again succeeded, until Mr. Emery walked down the aisle alone, and was greeted by testimonies of applause from his younger brethren. On leaving the church, the procession, including more than fifteen hundred individuals, proceeded to the left across the Common, and then, turning to the right, passed in front of the College edifices. By this arrangement, the graduates of the various classes passed...