General information about the Dudleian Lectures
Published: 1750
Language: eng
Subjects: Dudleian lectures
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Notes: The Dudleian lecture, endowed by Paul Dudley in 1750, is the oldest endowed lecture at Harvard University. Dudley specified that the lecture should be given once a year, and that the topics of the lectures should rotate among four themes: natural religion, revealed religion, the "Romish church," and the validity of the ordination of ministers. The first lecture was given in 1755, and the series continued uninterrupted until 1857, when the fund was suspended to allow for acculumation. The lecture series began again in 1888. In 1911, the Trustees voted to discontinue the third lecture topic, and the series continued rotating among the three topics until 1956, when another lecture topic, "Catholicism and Protestantism," was voted into the rotation.
Table of contents: title: Contains a table giving the name of each speaker, the date of the lecture, the title and category of the lecture, and the location of the text of the lecture at Harvard University, when it is available.