Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Among the summer improvements in University buildings, the extensive alteration and redecoration of the interior of Appleton Chapel is the most important. The former screen has been replaced by an entirely new partition, and the pulpit and reading-table have been remodelled...
...welcome accorded to the Review, two motives may be expected to exert their influence. The first is the interest excited by suspicion. We have heard of the Presbyterian Elder who usually slept during the sermon when his own minister was the preacher, but who, when a stranger occupied the pulpit, remained wide awake and keenly alert. He gave as his reason for this change of attitude, his assurance of the soundness of his minister, and his conviction that when a stranger came, he needed watching. There are many dormant minds to whom this Review with its new and unknown character...
...Cornell University, the University of Cincinnati, and the Hebrew Union College. He is the founder of the Kansas City Public Bureau of Charities, and the founder and Chancellor of the Jewish Chautauqua Society. He has published several books on biblical and social problems, among which are "Bible Ethics," "The Pulpit Message," "The Open Bible," and "Judaism and the Social Question...
...tablets were put in place on the walls of the Chapel during the past summer. The bronze tablet to Henry Ware, presented by his descendants, has been placed in the north wall at the left of the pulpit. It bears a bas-relief of Henry Ware on the upper half and the dates "1794-1843." Below is the inscription: "Henry Ware Junior. Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care...
Henry Ware received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1812, and his A.M. three years later. In 1834 he was given the honorary degree of D.D. In 1829 he was appointed professor of pulpit eloquence and the pastoral care, and this he held until 1840, when he received the newly created Parkman professorship of theology. From 1820 to 1830 he was an Overseer of the College...