Word: chaplainship
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...competitiveness, an unwillingness to quit. William Sloane Coffin, once Yale's chaplain, was an Andover classmate of Bush's and fellow Bones member at Yale, though they took separate paths afterward. (Coffin is now the head of SANE/ FREEZE, an antinuclear organization.) When Bush visited Yale during Coffin's chaplainship, he sent word he would like to play some squash with his old classmate. "Bring him on," Coffin crowed. They played a few games, Coffin winning and Bush getting more determined to win. Coffin was ready to call it a day, but Bush kept asking for one more game. Recalls...
...migrate to other churches. We believe that many men are waiting for the evening chapel to begin and that they imagine, in the meanwhile, that they are not drawing on their precious store of "cuts." Whether the change was due to a vacancy in the college chaplainship or to some more occult cause, we are unable to state, but that it has succeeded in inconveniencing a large number of students is very evident by the occasional murmurs of disapproval which reach our ears. But we can safely prophesy that, if the authorities hope to draw a congregation in the evenings...
When the same vandal influence which assailed religion in the case or the chaplainship is seen to be at work to undermine social feeling by attacking its expression, one may well wish that his lot had been cast in that golden age (problematical, to be sure, even in Homer's time) when a warrior raised with ease a stone that in after times was to require the strength of four of the fast degenerating species...
...that there would be no dancing and hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused of cant. But there is a question where this principle applies in a much more serious manner. I refer to the question whether the chaplainship is now anything more than a solemn sort of blasphemy. This is not a subject on which it is best to argue, but let any one examine the feeling with which this office is regarded in his own mind and in that of his acquaintances, and see if the chaplain...
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