Sunday, December 10, 1922

Bright, cold and breezy. Arose 9 A.M. Shaved, washed etc. Breakfast. To Harvard Chapel to Church. Dean Fenn spoke. Dinner. H.H. & I walked back from Cambridge. Took nap. Letter to Nellie. To Park Street Congregational in evening. Inspiring service. Talked. To bed 12:15 P.M.

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Dean Fenn

In 1922, William Wallace Fenn was the Dean of the Harvard School of Divinity, from whence he received his STD (Doctor of Sacred Theology) in 1908. 1922 was his last year as Dean, so Stanford may have seen one of Dean Fenn's last speeches, but Dr. Fenn continued on as a Harvard professor until his death at age 70 in 1932.

The Park Street Congregational Church is another historical church in Boston. This one was built in 1809 and has been the site of some notable historic events. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about the church that tells about some of those events:

In 1826 Edward Beecher, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and son of Lyman Beecher, a notable abolitionist, became pastor of the church. On July 4, 1829, William Lloyd Garrison delivered his Address to the Colonization Society at Park Street, making his first major public statement against slavery. From 1829–1831 Lowell Mason, a notable Christian composer, served as choirmaster and organist. The church hosted the debut of My Country, 'Tis of Thee, also known as America, by Samuel Francis Smith on July 4, 1831.[7] Park Street also played a role in founding the First "Homeland" or American Mission to the then Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), where that church still stands; the Handel and Haydn Society started there. Benjamin E. Bates, an industrialist who founded Bates College in Maine in 1855, was a Sunday school teacher and active attendant of Park Street in the mid-19th century. In 1857–58 evangelist, Charles Finney led a revival at Park Street which led the pastor, Andrew Leete Stone, to experience a spiritual awakening.

Below are two pictures of the church, early (19th C.) and late (2006). You can see how the church was almost alone on the street in the early days, whereas now it is surrounded by buildings that dwarf its distinctive steeple. Both images are from the Wikipedia article.