Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much difficulty exists in regard to the costume for the proposed statue, as we have many representations of the dress worn by Puritan clergymen of the time. If Harvard was a clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments...
...pitched without," said a clergyman, having Noah's ark for his theme, and an old gase-ball player, who had been calmly slumbering, awoke with a start and yelled, "Foul !" The first bass came down from the choir...
...Pennsylvania clergyman is a pitcher in a base-ball nine. His gestures sometimes make the congregation duck their heads...
...University Boat Races 1829-1880," recently published in London, to be below the average death rate. Out of 485 who had taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also...
...earned by years of hard study, sell a pound of nails or sugar intelligently. There is not a trade by which the most ignorant man makes his living in which be could now earn a dollar a week, without at least a short apprenticeship. If he wishes to become clergyman, lawyer or doctor, a regular course of two or three years' study is required, and after that a season of weary probation, waiting for hearers, clients and patients, in which he has to learn that new science - how to influence and deal with human nature. Every man, especially every young...