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...Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved a glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers they arrived in New York, reluctantly put spirituals on their programs and went to sing in Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
...twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes. Second with 99,147 was Jane Addams, Others: Clara Barton, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan Brownell Anthony, Helen Adams Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon, Dr-Mary Emma Woolley...
...event of political rather than publishing importance was last week's appearance of the first issue of The New Outlook edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith.- Theodore Roosevelt had thundered to the country from this same editorial chair and, before him, Lyman Abbott and Henry Ward Beecher. Now readers cocked ears to a voice it had heard often in the Press and over the "raddio." Introduced briefly by Publisher Frank Aloysius Tichenor, Editor Smith plunged into a three-page editorial opening the magazine as follows: "The New Outlook will check up once a month on what is taking place politically...
Henry Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...