Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody, who for many years officiated at the college chapel. He had, we believe, as a colleague on the special committee, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who now occasionally performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition of the undergraduates was the largest ever known, and the college faculty is notoriously strongly in favor of making prayers 'elective.' The incident is one more evidence of the growing antagonism between the overseers and the faculty, the only...
...fact that the officiating clergyman at morning prayers has to wear an overcoat in the pulpit is sufficient evidence that Appleton Chapel is not a warm enough place for hundreds of men to sit in each morning...
Webster afterwards became the pupil of Dr. Samuel Woods, a prominent clergyman of the day, who lived in Boscawen, and prepared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
...contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...
...Phillips Brooks will be the select preacher in the University of Cambridge next June. This is the second time that this honor has been conferred on an American clergyman...