Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During all those years, Headmaster Lucas didn't change much. Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman...
...movements must be controlled almost entirely through the rider's legs, and not through his hands. Federico Caprilli, an Italian officer of cavalry, was, in the 19th Century, the founder of a new system of riding called equitazione naturale, of which the secret mentioned above is a canon...
Good Shepherd. Butler's crusty father, a Church of England canon, intended his son for the ministry. He was outraged when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold...
Butler accused the canon of encouraging in him the despicable traits of unquestioning faith and conventional obedience, while damping down every speculative impulse. Once independent of the old man, Butler flew to the opposite extreme, making speculation his whole career...
Newman immediately replied to President Frederick Schweitzer of Bloomfield, telling him he was "astonished" at these criteria and stating, "It has long been a canon of academic freedom that a man's political opinions had no bearing on his ability to obtain and hold an academic appointment...