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...Yale in 1874 and of the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1879, has now been actively connected with the Hampton Institute for 28 years. He was chaplain from 1880 to 1893, when he became principal at the death of General S. C. Armstrong h.'89, the founder of the school and for 25 years its principal. He has continued to carry out General Armstrong's ideas of education and has greatly enlarged and extended the work and influence of the school...
...annual Dudleian Lecture will be given in Emerson Hall, Room D, tonight at 8 o'clock by the Rev. G. A. Gordon, D.D., '81, on "What is Revelation?" The subject for the year is the second of the series of four subjects prescribed in 1750 by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley 1690, namely: "The confirmation, illustration, and improvement of the great articles of the Christian Religion properly so-called or the revelation which Jesus Christ the Son of God was pleased to make, first by himself, and afterwards by his holy Apostles, to his church and the world for their...
...interesting address on the founding and work of one of the pioneer educational institutions of the West, the Idaho Industrial Institute, was given last night in the Union by Rev. E. A. Paddock, its founder and president. His descriptions and the stereopticon views which accompanied the address pictured an institution very different from anything the East can produce, but one which is doing as great good in proportion to its size...
...Reverend E. A. Paddock of Idaho, reformer, platform orator, and founder and president of the Idaho Industrial Institute, will give an illustrated lecture on "Roughing it in the Rockies" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. No one is better able to treat this subject than Mr. Paddock, who has lived for 25 years in the West among cowboys, ranchmen and miners; and no one knows better than he what has become of the thousands of adventures, prospectors, outlaws, and with them the educated and thoughtful men who went out west...
...first century of the College's history may be said to end with the year 1740, for the College did not really come into existence before it received Harvard's bequest. It is sometimes said that John Harvard was not the true founder of the College that bears his name, and that he was but the first of its many benefactors. The importance of his gift, however, may be estimated from the fact that although the General Court had appropriated $2000 for the College, it was not paid, and the Court was so poor that it was forced to borrow...