Word: lectureship
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...sympathetic critic which preceded him to this country, and his contribution is among the more important of the year. To him who rendered it possible for the Cercle to thus benefit the University thanks are due, and the success of this year augurs well for that of the lectureship in years to come...
...Barrows, D. D., of the University of Chicago, will deliver the Dudleian lecture at 8 o'clock this evening in Appleton Chapel. The Dudleian Lectureship was founded in 1750. In the earlier years of the college attendance at it was compulsory, and the day of its delivery was otherwise a holiday. Dr. Barrows is now delivering a course of lectures on Comparative Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Barrows was the organizer of the Congress of Religions held at the time of the World's Fair at Chicago and has since been in India...
...William Belden Noble of Washington, has given to the University a fund of $20,000 to endow a lectureship in memory of her husband, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and a graduate of Harvard in '85. The lectures are intended to perpetuate the influence of religion as represented by Phillips Brooks and may deal with any subject upon which Christianity has a bearing. The selection of the lecturers is committed to seven trustees: President Eliot, Professor Peabody, Bishop Lawrence, Dr. Mackenzie, Dean Hodges, Professor A. V. G. Allen, and Dr. George A. Gordon...
Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., has founded the Ingersoll Lectureship at Harvard, which provides for one lecture a year upon the "Immortality of Man." The fund is arranged to be used on a plan similar to that of the Dudleian Lectureship. The first lecture on this foundation was recently delivered by Dr. Gordon of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, on "Immortality and the New Theodicy." Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish this in a small volume about the middle of February...
Professor Genung of Amherst has been selected as one of the lectures in the Lyman Beecher lectureship foundation" at Yale Theological Seminary this year. His subject will be: "The Literary Equipment of the Minister...