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...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...
...announcement that the committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which is to deliver lectures at Yale, among other colleges, is peculiarly gratifying, inasmuch as the opportunities of hearing men of attainment are rare at Yale at present. These lectures will doubtless prove to be very interesting, as a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work, will be chosen by the holder of the lectureship...
...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...