. History of the First church in Dunstable-Nashua, , and of later churches there. readmirably filled by him to the end of his distinguishedcareer. During his first year at the Seminary, he taught elo-cution in Abbot and Phillips academies at Andover. Hisservices to both, in this capacity, lasted as long as thoseto the Seminary. As a lecturer on, or teacher of, elocution, he was con-nected with the School of Oratory in Boston University,from 1873 to 1879,—with Mt. Holyoke Seminary (nowa college) from 1875 to 1882,—with Smith College, from1876 to 1880,—with Wellesley College, from 1877 to187
. History of the First church in Dunstable-Nashua, , and of later churches there. readmirably filled by him to the end of his distinguishedcareer. During his first year at the Seminary, he taught elo-cution in Abbot and Phillips academies at Andover. Hisservices to both, in this capacity, lasted as long as thoseto the Seminary. As a lecturer on, or teacher of, elocution, he was con-nected with the School of Oratory in Boston University,from 1873 to 1879,—with Mt. Holyoke Seminary (nowa college) from 1875 to 1882,—with Smith College, from1876 to 1880,—with Wellesley College, from 1877 to1878,—-with Johns Hopkins University, in 1880,—andwith Harvard Divinity School, from 1890 to 1896. For longer or shorter periods, he gave instruction inpublic speaking at Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and othercolleges. The number of students whom he trained in-dividually, in connection with public debates, prize speak-ing and Commencement parts, was surprisingly large. Until the latter part of his life, he met numberlessappointments as a public reader — not only in prominent. Prof. John Wesley Churchill. Biographic Sketch of Prof. Churchill. 79 courses of literary entertainments, but often in small townsand for the aid of feeble churches. Although he was never the regular pastor of any church,serving from sabbath to sabbath, he preached in turn,as one of the pastors of the Seminary Church at An-dover, and officiated frequently in the pulpits of Amherstand Harvard colleges and elsewhere in New England. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred onhim by Dartmouth College in 1896. He was a trustee of Abbot Academy from 1870 to theend of his life; and was a member of the Corporation of theSchool of Expression (in Boston) from its foundation aboutthe year 1870, — and president of its Board of Trusteesseveral years. By vote of the Corporation, the Schoolconferred on him a purple and gold Star of Honor, as theforemost reader in this country, in 1896. A few years later, he
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