Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...company headed by a chaplain would sometimes parade the streets of Cambridge in masquerade costume, presenting a most ludicrous appearance. During the days of its prosperity the society held meetings at stated intervals at which poems and orations were delivered, In this way it soon acquired a literary reputation which, however, was short-lived. Some of the poems were considered of sufficient merit to be published. The most famous one is the "Rebelliad" which was written by a Doctor Pierce in 1819 and first published...
...Babbidge has been pastor of a church in Pepperell for fifty years, and was chaplain of the first 6th Massachusetts. regiment which went through Baltimore. Shortly after ten o'clock the procession, headed by President Eliot and Gov. Butler, marched to Sanders where the usual exercises took place, At one o'clock the alumni meeting was held in Harvard Hall, at which William G. Russell of Boston was chosen president for the ensuing year. At the dinner of the alumni in Memorial Hall, the crowd was larger than ever before. The Hon. Joseph H. Choate, of New York presided...