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...University has received a gift of over $10,000 for the establishment of an annual lectureship in memory of Edwin L. Godkin h.'17, who died in May, 1902. Mr. Godkin became editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Evening Post" in 1881, until the time of his death, was editor of both papers. The objects of the lectureship are set forth in the following letter of gift: NEW YORK, March...
...first decided upon the club found that a suitable American edition could not be procured, so it published one of its own. The reception it received was very encouraging, the entire edition being sold. As last year, the proceeds from the performance will be devoted to a public lectureship fund in French literature...
...Ingersoll Lectureship was founded in 1893 by the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, of Keene, N. H., which provided for the delivery of one lecture each year on "The Immortality of Man," and also for the publication of the lecture after its delivery. Under these provisions four lectures have thus far been delivered and published:--1--"Immortality and the New Theodicy," by Rev. George A Gordon; 2. "Human Immortality. Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine," by Professor William James; 3. "Dionysos and Immortality," by President Benjamin I. Wheeler; 4. "The Conception of Immortality," by Professor Josiah Royce...
...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...