Word: deacon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William Stevens Perry, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Iowa, died of paralysis at his home in Dubuque, Iowa, on Friday. Bishop Perry was born in Providence, R. I., on January 22, 1832. He graduated from Harvard in 1854 and, after completing his theological studies, was ordained a deacon in 1857 and a priest, in Boston, the following year. He began his work in St. Paul's Church, Boston, and served successively in churches in Portland, Me., Litchfield, Conn., and Geneva, N. Y. While at Geneva be was professor of history in Hobart College from...
...promenade. During a year or two he was a frequent contributor to the Yale "Lit," and last year won the Junior Exhibition Prize Speaking contest, which requires literary as well as oratorical ability. As chairman of the Ninety-six News Board, and in connection with his work as class deacon, he has had many addresses to make, and, while he has never represented Yale in debate before, he is known as a thoroughly earnest and forcible speaker...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 3. - Yale won an easy game today at the Yale field with the Murray Hill nine. A number of fine plays were made by Yale. Carter caught a great game for the Murray Hills, but Deacon was an easy mark and after the first inning Yale pounded him at will. The cold, raw air made clean fielding impossible. Score by innings...
Hits - Yale 18, Murray Hills 4. Errors - Yale 5, Murray Hill 5. Batterics - Deforest. Wilcox, Trudeau and Thompson; Carter, Deacon and Bunnemer...
...fourth. The second and the last are the poorest. "The Artistic Temperament" by Townsend Walsh is one of the best things of the number. It is a story of a troup of wandering actors and is told in a bright and entertaining style. "The Sudden Conversion of Deacon Enoch Grubb" is rather weak and flat. There is not much of a plot and the form is not good enough to make the story interesting reading. "Reaping Tares" by H. H Chamberlain is a very pretty story. "Sleep" by C. G. Alexander is a piece of poetry rather above average college...