Third Univ. Tea in Brooks House

The third University tea of the year will be held this afternoon in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House from 4 to 6 o'clock. A committee of ladies and members of the Faculty will receive and all members of the Faculty will receive and all members of the Faculty will receive and all members of the University are invited to be present.

As this is the anniversary of the birth of Phillips Brooks '55, there will be an informal memorial service to him in connection with the tea. Professor F.G. Peabody '69 will gave a short address at 5 o'clock on the life and work of Bishop Brooks in relation to Harvard University. The University quartet will sing the following selections: "Integer Vitae," Fleming; Brahm's "Lullaby", and the "Dominum fac," of Gounod. At the close of the service the familiar hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem," written by Phillips Brooks, will be sung. Reference will also be made to the things which the Phillips Brooks House has received from the estate of Phillips Brooks, including his desk and chair, the rug from his study, and an autograph letter.

Bishop Brooks was born in Boston in 1835, and was a graduate of the Boston Latin School, of Harvard College, and of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1859 he became rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, and in 1862 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, also in Philadelphia. He came to Boston in 1869 as rector of Trinity Church, and continued there until his death in 1893. For the last two years of that period he had the additional office of Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts.

His connection with Harvard was long and close. From 1870 to 1889 he was a member of the Board of Overseers, and a University Preacher from 1886 to 1891. Bishop Brooks received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from no less than four colleges, from Union College in 1870, Harvard University in 1877, Oxford University in 1885, and Columbia University in 1887. He died January 23, 1893, and soon after his death Phillips Brooks House was erected in commemoration of his life and work.

The following will act as ushers: A.E. Allen '09, H.M. Gilmore '08, L.K. Lunt '09, R.M. Middlemass '09, J.A. Paine '09, L.C. Seaverns '10, M.B. Whitney '08, D.J. Witmer '10.