Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock Saturday morning four men, all of whom are probably members of the University broke into Phillips Brooks House through one of the rear windows, forced the lock of one of the doors in the interior of the building, and carried away with them the bronze memorial tablet to Bishop Brooks which was there on exhibition. They were discovered by the police immediately after they had left the building, and one of them, B. Joy '05, was arrested. The others escaped with the tablet, but were forced to drop it in a clump of bushed near the Fogg Art Museum...
...tablet in memory of Phillips Brooks '55, which is to be presented to the Virginia Theological Seminary at Alexandria, on May 30, will be placed on exhibition this morning in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House, and will remain there until next Wednesday, when it will be sent to Alexandria...
...tablet is of bronze and is three feet wide by two and one-half feet high, with an ornamental border. It bears an inscription, written by Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins...
...Floyd W. Tomkins '72, rector of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, will deliver the presentation speech at the unveiling of the bronze tablet to be presented to the Virginia Theological Seminary in memory of Rev. Phillips Brooks '55, on the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation. The date of the presentation will be May 30, and not May 27, as was recently announced...
...Strong, of Cambridge, a classmate of Bishop Brooks at the Virginia Theological Seminary, will write his life for the souvenir pamphlet, which will also contain a history of the tablet and a list of the subscribers...