Word: dudleian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dudleian Lecture. The Fourth Anniversary Lecture. Rev. William Elliot Griffis, of Boston. Appleton Chapel...
...DUDLEIAN LECTURE.The fourth Anniversary Lecture will be delivered by Rev. William Elliot Griffis of Boston, in Appleton Chapel, Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 7.30 p. m., and will be open to the public...
...Griffis D. D. of Boston has been invited to deliver the Dudleian lecture for this year. The subject as prescribed by the will of Chief Justice Paul Dudley, who bequeathed the fund for the maintenance of the lectures, is as follows...
...delivery of the Dudleian lecture this year has been offered by the committee to Rev. W. E. Griffis D. D., of Boston, although as yet no official acceptance of the offer has been received. We give in another column the extract from the will of the founder stating what shall be the subject of the fourth lecture. Rev. Mr. Griffis is a man of considerable prominence in his church and well able to treat this subject...
...will be interesting to those who do not know the history of these Dudleian lectures to state briefly the conditions upon which they were founded. In 1750 Paul Dudley, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court made a bequest of $23 to be used in giving a series of four lectures on religious subjects, one lecture to be given each year. Justice Dudley was a man much interested in matters of theology and his desire in founding this course of lectures was to afford a means for broad and comprehensive treatment of what seemed to him important theological questions...