Letters and Sermons, 1902-1954.

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Letters and Sermons, 1902-1954.

Letters and sermons of of Congregationalist minister and dean of HarvardDivinity School Willard Learoyd Sperry (1882-1954). The collection also containssubject files on Amherst College, Andover Newton Theological School, and HarvardDivinity School, among others. Finally, there are miscellaneous writings and othermaterials, including clippings, notes, and article fragments.

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Andover Theological Seminary

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Swisher, Walter Samuel, 1882-1967

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Seelye Bixler.

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W. D. Rowlands

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Annie Learoyd

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Gilkey, Charles Whitney, 1882-1968

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The Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and representative of the University of Chicago, Charles W. Gilkey was born in Massachusetts on 3 July 1882. His parents were James H. Gilkey, and Mary Lottie Johnson. Gilkey's brother James Gordon also entered the ministry and became a reverend. Educated in the United States, Gilkey also pursued graduated studies in Europe: Harvard, A.B. 1903, A.M. 1904 Union Theological Seminary, B.D., 1908 Uni...

Laurence I. Neale

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Manchester College (Oxford)

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Yale

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Wright, James A.

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James A. Wright was born in Illinois between 1838 and 1840. His father came to Red Wing, Minnesota in 1854 and purchased a claim there, but died on the way back to Illinois in the spring of 1854. On April 22, 1855, Amelia (Crews) Wright and her family arrived at the claim and began constructing a home that was destroyed by a storm which also killed the oldest son and youngest daughter. Wright was attending Hamline University (Red Wing) when war was declared, and he and o...

Henry H. Kendall

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Pauline Sperry

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Willard Gardner Sperry

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W. W. Donovan

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Vassar College.

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Herrick, Everett Carleton, 1876-1957.

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Mrs. Willard Learoyd Sperry

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Vaughan Dabney

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Dean Goodwin

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Frothingham, Paul Revere, 1864-1926

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Paul Revere Frothingham (1864-1926) graduated from Harvard College in 1886 with an AM degree and in 1889 with an STB degree. He served as pastor of the First Congregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, from 1889 to 1900 and the Arlington Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston from 1900 to 1926. Rev. Frothingham served as a preacher of Harvard for sixteen years and served the school as an overseer from 1904 to 1910, and again from 1918 to 1924. His wife, Anna Clapp Frothingham, established...

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R. M. Vaughan

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James Cannon

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Gorham

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Henrietta Ripperger

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Harris, Lynn Harold

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William J. Cloues (Addressee)

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Sperry, Willard Learoyd, 1882-1954

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Congregational minister, dean of Harvard Divinity School. B.A. Olivet College, 1903; B.A. Oxford, 1907; M.A. Yale, 1909. Ordained a Congregational minister, 1908, serving churches in Fall River and Boston, Mass. (1908-1922). Dean, Harvard Divinity School (1922-1953), Plummer Professor of Christian Morals (1928-1953). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Five. From the description of Papers, 1902-1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). Wo...

Roberts, Harry B.

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King's Chapel

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Riley, William A.

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Muriel Bennett Sperry

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Sperry, Pauline, 1885-

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Francis C. Woodman

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Harvard

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Samuel B. A. Campbell

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Robins, Sidney Swaim

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Bernardin, Joseph Buchanan, 1899-

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Pinkham, Henry W.

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Edward H. Roberts

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Anderson, Frederick L. (Frederick Lincoln), 1862-1938

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Baptist minister, professor at The Newton Theological Institution. From the description of Papers, 1889-1938. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 11817560 ...

Harvard Divinity School.

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The Harvard Divinity School was started in 1811 when a program of graduate studies was organized for candidates for the ministry. In 1819 it became a separate administrative unit in Harvard University. From the description of General information by and about the Harvard Divinity School, 1811- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511094 Theology has been taught at Harvard since its opening in 1638. The Harvard Divinity School was started in 1811 when a program of grad...

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