Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate of Freiberg Cathedral...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge on December 22, 1823. After he was graduated from College in 1841, he attended the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1847. He then became a minister of the Theodore Parker school, but in 1858 abandoned the pulpit, having entered actively into literature and also into political affairs, especially in the anti-slavery conflict over Kansas. In 1862 he became a captain in the 51st Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and afterwards Colonel of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina, composed of freed slaves. He was severely wounded in August...
...frequent as in Appleton Chapel. A reading of the Advocate editorial would lead one to believe that seldom are distinguished preachers brought to the Chapel. A glance at the list of men who have preached this year will show that there have been but few Sundays when the pulpit was not occupied by a man of national reputation...