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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life he always preached. It should be made the house and workshop for all forms of spiritual activity, benevolent action and religions aspiration in the University. To do this as he would do it, will take not less than $8,000 per year for its maintenance in full and free operation. It should also include a fund for voluntary service in Appleton Chapel, as well as for the proper accommodations of college preachers, while in residence, for which there is temporarily advanced out of the College General Fund about $7,500 per year. To meet these wants and perpetuate...
...third theological students. The theological department has been in existence several years and has been incorporated into the main body of the University. These students may do religious work in the city and receive for it three dollars a week and upwards. They also receive a furnished room free of charge in Divinity Dormitory accommodating 140 students, and built by Mr. Rockefeller. It is also stated in the catalogue that the theological students can earn in addition to this about $100 a year...
...fund is that it is not forced, it is not a contribution which has an element of duty in it. No one ought to contribute to this fund who is not moved to do so by his own feeling for Mr. Bolles. That the fund may be of this free, spontaneous nature, we do not urge men to subscribe to it. The opportunity for subscribing must now be pretty well understood and it is each man's personal affair from this time whether or no he subscribes. Collections from the boxes at Memorial and the Foxcroft Club will be made...
...building which should be the centre of the religious life of the university. Every undertaking at which he could aid by his words and presence, came to him not as a duty but a privilege, while the deep sincerity with which he shared all our work made us feel free to call upon him at all times, though this did not lesson the sense of our indebtedness to him. We have told before how opposed he was at first to the system of voluntary worship, and of how on more mature thought he turned heart and soul toward securing...
...Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There he met a Catholic and was converted from the Protestant faith, and when set free a T was branded on his thumb. Later he returned to the English church...