Word: evensong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rangy cadets of St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wis., are very, very good boys this summer, apart from their religious duties of attending evensong five times a week and chapel on Sundays, they will learn quite a lot about fly-and bait-casting. For last week that famed itinerant casting-expert "Smiling Bill" Vogt said definitely that during July & August he would show St. John's cadets how he works. He has signed a performance contract with Col. Roy Felton Farrand, St. John's graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer...
When Glenn Frank resigned as editor of the Century and became president of the University of Wisconsin in 1925, people told him what terrible hours a university executive had to spend on detail work. He, inexperienced, was no doubt expected to be at his desk from dawn until evensong. But, instead, he was found in his office about half as often as his predecessor. He wandered about the campus, made trips to Manhattan, continued to write for magazines. And the University of Wisconsin got along very nicely; it even progressed; Alexander Meiklejohn was brought out to form an experimental college...
Dean Washburn of the Episcopal Theological School will deliver the address at choral evensong in St. John's Memorial Chapel, Brattle street, this afternoon at 5.30. The service will be preceded by an organ recital at 5 o'clock...