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...founding of the College. It was during one of the ceremonies of that occasion that Fair Harvard was first sung. In 1865 a solemn funeral procession on the occasion of the death of Lincoln, formed before old Gore Hall, passed by Boylston and Grays to the present Unitarian Church, where the most solemn services were held, in which Phillips Brooks made a prayer of remarkable power and passion. On January 26, 1893, with the snow deep on the ground, but with the whole University, officers, students and servants standing bare-headed, the funeral procession of Phillips Brooks, perhaps Harvard...
...Edward Caldwell Moore, pastor of the Central Congregational Church of Providence, has been elected Parkman Professor of Theology. Dr. Moore graduated from Marietta College in 1877, and from the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1884. He also studied in Germany at the Universities of Berlin, Gottingen and Giesen. While living in Providence he lectured frequently at Brown University, from which he recently received the degree of Ph.D...
...funeral of the late Professor Thayer will be held in Appleton Chapel today at 2 o'clock. The service, which will be very simple, will be conducted by the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, rector of the First Congregational Church of Cambridge, and by Professor Frances G. Peabody. The interment will take place at Mount Auburn cemetery...
Professor Thayer graduated from Harvard in 1850 with the degree of A.M. and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1857. Later he accepted the pastorate of a church in Salem, Massachusetts, which he kept until 1864, when he became Professor of Sacred Literature at the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1884 he was made Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Divinity School. This position he held until last spring, when he resigned on account of failing health...
Professor Francis Brown, D.D., of Union Theological Seminary, begins the conduct of prayers in Appleton Chapel tomorrow. Professor Brown is one of the most distinguished scholars and preachers of the Presbyterian Church. He was last summer honored with the degrees of Oxford and Glasgow. This is his first term of service here on the Staff of Preachers, and his coming will be welcomed by many members of the University...