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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bishop Lawrence spoke for the givers of the tablet, which has been erected in the eastern end of the Chapel in Dr. Peabody's memory. He said that the affection which filled the heart of every student for Dr. Peabody can hardly be realized now. All the graduates wished to contribute to some memorial, and, in response to a circular asking for small sums, over $4200 in addition to the amount needed was received. This sum goes to the Corporation...
...DeNormandie, who followed, spoke of Dr. Peabody's parish work at Portsmouth. The atmosphere of spirituality and devotion which pervaded the Portsmouth church during Dr. Peabody's pastorate, said Mr. DeNormandie, was unusual and impressive. Dr. Peabody was destined for the ministry from his birth. He was only twenty-two when he became the pastor of the Portsmouth church...
...said Father Huntington, agree that a definite course must be followed to gain physical or mental education; but few realize that the spiritual life should be developed by scientific methods. Dogma has a bad sound to many; but it is simply the church expressing what she means by her worship. No body of persons who have no way of telling their object, can have so strong a form of corporate life as a body whose belief is fully stated...
...Truth, said Mr. Fenn, is personal. It may be of three kinds: truth of sincerity of thought; truth which lies in the agreement between the individual thought and the general opinion of mankind; and truth of reality. It is to the last kind that the truth of character belongs...
Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself...