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Speaking on the other side of the question, the Reverend Percy Stickney Grant '83, rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York, will give a talk at the Union next Tuesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "Religion's Opportunity Today...
...Rector of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Manhattan, thorn-in-the-flesh of William T. Manning, Bishop...
...Rector Guthrie, proponent of classical dane-ing, has achieved a national reputation thk Winter. People in Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, Boston, St. Louis have asked him to come and talk...
...Harvard Christian Association, under whose management the address has been arranged, had hoped to have some theologian of less liberal views than Dr. Grant debate with him on religious, topics of the hour. The logical person, however, Rev. John Roach Stratton, rector of Calvary Church, New York, has declined the invitation to be on the platform at the same time as Dr. Grant. Nevertheless there is a possibility that he will appear at the University at some later date...
Phillips Brooks, who graduated one hundred years later, also left his mark, but since his field happened to be religious rather than political, there is much less popular knowledge concerning him. It may therefore, be worthy of note that he became rector of Trinity Church, Boston--in front of which his statue now stands--in 1869, after an active career of vigorous, successful preaching, particularly during the Civil War. In 1881, he declined an invitation to become the sole preacher and professor of Christian ethics at Harvard, but for a long time he exerted a deep influence upon the religious...