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On Jan. 23, 1900, at 4 p.m., hundreds of donors gathered in the northwest corner of Harvard Yard to dedicate the new Phillips Brooks House (PBH) to the ideals of "piety, charity and hospitality."
The house was built in memory of Phillips Brooks, Class of 1855, who became a well-known Episcopal preacher in the Boston community and the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts in 1891.
At yesterday's event, Robert Treat Paine Storer '45, great-grandson of the original ceremony's opening speaker, told the assembled guests of the close ties his family had had with Phillips Brooks. He also emphasized the importance of religion in his own life and in the creation of PBH...
Other highlights of the event included a cake made in the shape of Phillips Brooks House, donated by Alden Merrell Cheesecake Company, and a speech by Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals.
Gomes recalled the spirit of Brooks in his address.