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Professor Ephraim Emerton '71 has been reelected president of the Cambridge Historical Society...
...Unitarian Laymen's League takes charge of the church services all over the country. On Sunday, Rev. F. G. Peabody '69, former dean of the Divinity School and a brother-in-law of President Eliot, and Rev. S. M. Crothers '99, will conduct the seryices, assisted by Professor Ephraim Emerton '71 and Professor W. N. Cole '90, Dr. Peabody will preach on "The Religion of Charles William Eliot...
Professor Emeritus Ephraim Emerton '71 said: "There will be plenty of others to speak of Dean Briggs' eminent services as administrative officer, sagacious counsellor, persistent believer in the essential right-mindedness of youth. My word at this moment is one, not of eulogy, but of congratulation for the opportunity now opening before him to devote himself to the congenial work of literary production. The volume of his achievement in this field is already considerable. As a writer of graceful verse and of a lucid prose always carrying a message of hopeful courage without reproach, he has a wide audience already...
Professor Emerton's subject will be "The Church as a Sovereign State", discussing what is perhaps the most conspicuous example in history of civil government conducted by the church. He will deal with the government of papal territory prior to the Napoleonic epoch, and will discuss especially the relation of this system of church government to its code of laws...
Thus far, the addresses have been made principally from the legalist point of view. Professor Emerton will speak from the view-point of a scholar of church history and theology, subjects to which he has given much study. Graduating from Harvard in 1871, he went to Leipzig, where he took his Ph.D. in 1876. He became an instructor in History and German, and from 1878 to 1882 was Winn professor of ecclesiastical history at Harvard. Some of the books he has written are "An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages", "A Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe...