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President Eliot is at present in Chicago, having had a very successful trip west, and having carried out his program as announced. From Brooklyn he proceeded to Indianapolis, and from there to Urbana, Illinois, where he spent Sunday and Monday at the State University...
...York University in 1853, and has received the degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor...
Besides the main office, there are five branches: the Sailors' branch in the Battery, the East Side branch, the West Side branch, and branches in Brooklyn and Harlem. The Sailors' branch deals with the impositions practiced upon seamen, and has done much in the last twenty years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose...
...Eliot, son of President Eliot, is president of the American Unitarian Association, and a preacher of wide reputation. From 1889 to 1893 he was minister of Unity Church, Denver, Colorado, and for the five succeeding years, was pastor of the Church of the Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1900 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College...
...following officers were elected for the remainder of the academic year: president, G. G. Glass '08, of Spokane, Washington; vice-presidents, E. F. Hanfstaengl '09, of Munich, Germany, and T. C. Yeh '09, of Sunkiang, China; secretary and treasurer, F. S. Montgomery '08, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; councillors, W. B. Munro '99, of Ontario, Canada, E. H. Wells '97, of Boston, Mass., and S. Fujioka '10, of Tokyo, Japan...