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...that time he came to the Harvard Divinity School, and spent two years in study. In 1859 he was ordained at Bangor to his first and only parish. The Independent Congregational Church of Bangor. Here he stayed for ten years, until he was called to Harvard to fill the chair of Bussey Professor of Theology, which he held up to the time of his death. From 1878 he was Dean of the Divinity School...
...John H. Finley, former president of Knox College, has been appointed to the new chair of Politics at Princeton, recently endowed with $100,000 by two anonymous donors...
...head of the table, surrounded by the courtiers, and Jon Rand at the foot. When the gaiety is at its height and Jau is well filled with wines, Frau Adeluz brings in Schluck dressed as a princess, but still wearing his long beard. Jau sinks in his chair with astonishment, then rushes upon Schluck and embraces him. Schluck assumes a high-pitched voice and calls Jau by endearing names, all the time endeavoring to kiss him. Then Jau breaks away in horror and calls on the courtiers to remove the fright. They of course refuse, saying that...
...Brown '91, a very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation, and if the right man be found, will be a great step in advance. The other special articles are sufficiently explained by their titles,--"The Harvard Meleager...
...Alfred Jingle, and "The Cratchets' Christmas Dinner"; from Henry Esmond, the part in which Lady Castlewood explains to Lord Hamilton Esmond's right to be present at the marriage of Beatrix; and from "Vanity Fair," the passage in which Rawdon Crawley surprises Becky with Lord Steyn; "The Cane-Bottom Chair," "The Age of Wisdom" and "The End of the Play...