Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faculty meeting held last Tuesday, the Toppan prize of $150 was awarded to Arthur Lyons Cross '95, now instructor in the University of Michigan, for an "Essay on the Angelican Episcopate and the American Colonies." The judges were Professor Barrett Wendell, Rt. Rev. Bishop William Lawrence, D.D., and Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis...
...Sargent Dixwell '27 died at his home on Garden street, Cambridge, on Friday afternoon, at the advanced age of ninety-two. While at College his room-mate was Cornelius C. Felton, afterwards president of Harvard, and among his class-mates were Edmund Quincy, former president Stearns of Amherst, and Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1833 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he soon gave up the law to become head-master of the Boston Latin School. During the fifteen years in which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable set of boys...
...present pope was born in 1810, and received his early education in a Jesuit school. During the few years following his admission to the priesthood in 1837, he showed great ability as an administrator in several churches where trouble had occurred, and was rewarded by being made a bishop. In 1853 he was made cardinal, and in 1878 was elected pope by his fellow cardinals. Leo XIII is a man of wide learning and has great executive ability as well...
...Paul's Society, Rev. Ellis Bishop, of Salk Lake City, Utah. Phillips Brooks House...
...closing address was made by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts. He compared the present size of the society with that which it had when Harvard was smaller and the meetings were held in the basement of University Hall. In the growth of the society with the University there is great encouragement. The danger that exists from over-development of the intellectual faculties to the exclusion of religion can be successfully met by engaging a work like that which the St. Paul's Society provides...