James Hardy Ropes (September 3, 1866January 7, 1933) was an American
theologian
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[ He graduated from ]Harvard College
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in 1889 and was an instructor there from 1895 to 1898 and an assistant professor until 1903.[ Ropes was then appointed the Bussey Professor of New Testament criticism.][ He occupied the Hollis Chair at ]Harvard Divinity School
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starting in 1910.[ He was also the Chairman of Commission on Extension Courses and Dean of the ]University Extension
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He led the funeral of Henry Bradford Endicott
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, for whom Ropes' boss, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (December 13, 1856 – January 6, 1943) was an American educator and legal scholar. He was President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.
With an "aristocratic sense of mission and self-certainty," Lowell cut a large f ...
, served as a pall bearer with Governors Calvin Coolidge
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and Samuel W. McCall
Samuel Walker McCall (February 28, 1851 – November 4, 1923) was a Republican lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was for twenty years (1893–1913) a member of the United States House of Representatives, and the 47th Governo ...
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Sermons and glass slides
by James Hardy Ropes are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School
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in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1866 births
1933 deaths
People from Salem, Massachusetts
Harvard Divinity School faculty
Harvard Extension School faculty
Harvard University administrators
Harvard College alumni
Phillips Academy alumni
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