Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preacher conducting morning prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day during his term of service...
...preacher conducting morning prayers may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day during his term of service...
Appleton chapel was opened yesterday for the last Sunday service for the class of '89. This annual Baccalaureate service is always well appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect...
...German for five years from September 1, 1889; Robert Sanderson, assistant professor of French for five years from September 1, 1889; Frederic Cesaer Sumichrast, assistant professor of French for five years from September 1 1889; Alfred B. Nichols, instructor in German for 1889-90; Lyman Abbot D. D,, as preacher to the university for the year 1889-90. It was also voted to concur in the following appointment of preachers to the university for the year 1889-90; Phillips Brooks, D. D., William Lawrence, A. B., Theodore Chickering Williams, A. B., D. B. George Angus Gordon...
...Brooks was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a portion of the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. He spoke of the simplicity with which the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is here described, and said that in that very simple city there are many lessons for us. He dwelt particularly upon the second verse of the chapter. It illustrated the need of the greatest things of this world for the least, of the highest for the lowest. The most insignificant things become essential when there is a demand for them. So in life, there is a place...