Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Appleton Chapel this morning at the time of the usual morning prayers. Rev. Francis J. McConnell, D.D., L.L.D., president of De Pauw University, Green-castle, Indiana, who will conduct the service, will speak on "The Inheritance of the Meek," taking the life of the young and humble English clergyman as the basis of his talk. The first service in commemoration of the birth of John Harvard was held in 1904. In succeeding years, with the exception of 1907, the anniversary was allowed to pass without special notice. On the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary two years ago a notable...
...fund which provides for the Noble lectures was presented to the University in 1898 by Mrs. William Belden Noble in memory of her husband, an Episcopal clergyman of the class of 1885, and of Phillips Brooks with whom Mr. Noble was in close sympathy...
...able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments, and it is here that we find the key to the problem of the country churches...
...Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman at morning prayers gave out the hymn by Cowper which ends...
...Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good preacher, a good man, and surrounded by goodness, but lacks reality, and the power of accomplishing good...