Word: pulpiteering
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...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...
...Argus complains of the "undignified scramble" which takes place in the chapel every morning as soon as "Amen" is pronounced from the pulpit. We were not surprised to hear of such a deplorable state of things at Yale, but Wesleyan ought to be able to set a better example...
THREE years ago several of the leading clergymen of Boston occupied, on different Sunday evenings, the Chapel pulpit; and the result was that on these occasions the Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. At Cambridge Sunday is at best a dull day, especially when the cold weather prevents us from attending church in Boston; and if means were taken to enable the students to hear, on successive Sunday evenings, such men as Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke, the service would be thoroughly appreciated by the students...
...studied Divinity at Cambridge after graduation with the professors of theology, who did not then constitute a faculty distinct from that of the College, and in 1818 he was called to the pulpit of the Harvard Church at Charlestown, Mass. He occupied this for twenty-one years, and under his care it became one of the most flourishing and intelligent in the State, and its pastor was recognized as without a peer, with the possible exception of Channing, among Unitarian preachers...
...most beautiful and honored retirement in our immediate neighborhood. He was re-elected to the Board of Overseers in 1864, and was a member of it at the time of his death. But Dr. Walker is remembered by his pupils and friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached in the College Chapel, and not infrequently in neighboring pulpits. It was an event to hear one of his sermons. The language was invariably plain...