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Divinity Hall Lectures. Subject: English in the Pulpit. Prof. A. S. Hill. Divinity Chapel...
...Plato and Thucydides, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. This fact gains interest as marking another step towards freedom of thought in the great centre of British conservatism. Counted by years it is not long since Mr. Jowett, having been excluded from the university pulpit, was threatened with prosecution for heresy, and denied his legitimate salary of professor of Greek. Now, without any change of opinion on his part, he has been appointed to the highest active office of the university...
...Richardson of Washington has, from the pulpit, been indulging in scathing denunciations of Atty.-Gen. Brewster's conduct towards the star route thieves...
...rather a preference for the system which Mr. Jones uses. There has been for some years a desire to check the tendency to train young men for theatrical declamation, and to give instead a foundation of development better calculated to make good public speakers at the bar, in the pulpit, or on the legislative floor. This desire has been enforced by the decisions of every set of judges who have been selected to award the Boylston prizes at the annual public exhibition. The aim now is to give perfect command of the body in clear and effective utterance in private...
...Drennan occupied the pulpit at the regular chapel services yesterday...