Word: bishops
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...weekly meeting of the Divinity Club held last evening a memorial service to Bishop Phillips Brooks '55 was held. Professor F. G. Peabody '69 gave an informal address on the "Life and Work of Phillips Brooks" and read parts of one of his unpublished addresses. "The Relation of the Minister to his People...
...sixth and last of the William Belden Noble lectures for the year was given in Sanders Theatre last night by the Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent, D.D., Bishop of the Philippines. His subject was "The Representative Leader of Men," and under this subject he summed up the substance of what he had said in previous lectures on the general subject, "Leadership...
...this is the anniversary of the birth of Phillips Brooks '55, there will be an informal memorial service to him in connection with the tea. Professor F.G. Peabody '69 will gave a short address at 5 o'clock on the life and work of Bishop Brooks in relation to Harvard University. The University quartet will sing the following selections: "Integer Vitae," Fleming; Brahm's "Lullaby", and the "Dominum fac," of Gounod. At the close of the service the familiar hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem," written by Phillips Brooks, will be sung. Reference will also be made to the things...
...Bishop Brooks was born in Boston in 1835, and was a graduate of the Boston Latin School, of Harvard College, and of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1859 he became rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, and in 1862 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, also in Philadelphia. He came to Boston in 1869 as rector of Trinity Church, and continued there until his death in 1893. For the last two years of that period he had the additional office of Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts...
...connection with Harvard was long and close. From 1870 to 1889 he was a member of the Board of Overseers, and a University Preacher from 1886 to 1891. Bishop Brooks received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from no less than four colleges, from Union College in 1870, Harvard University in 1877, Oxford University in 1885, and Columbia University in 1887. He died January 23, 1893, and soon after his death Phillips Brooks House was erected in commemoration of his life and work...