Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Brooks was a 3-year-old moppet, romping on a Virginia plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed...
...portrait of a Boston clergyman who declined the presidency of Harvard College in 1737, the Reverend William Cooper, was acquired this week by Harvard University from an anonymous donor. The portrait is one of the rarest and most valuable mezzotint engravings of early New England clergymen, and was made in 1743 by Peter Pelham, copied from an oil painting by John Smibert...
...sons. Cosmo Gordon studied law with a view to entering politics, suddenly changed his mind, entered not his father's church but his King's, rose to be its No.1 prelate. Of his four living brothers, M. (for Marshall) Buchanan Lang, 66, is the only Presbyterian clergyman of the lot. He it was to whom last week the Church of Scotland gave the moderatorship nomination, equivalent to election at the General Assembly next...
...Simeon Arthur Huston* cried: "We have had a lot of pious twaddle from celibate clergymen who are about as far from knowledge of the realities of life as the man in the moon." Up spoke Nevada's Rt. Rev. Thomas Jenkins: "Vote no! I am not a celibate clergyman. I have raised seven children and sent four to college and I am out of debt." But the House of Bishops passed the resolution...
...Author. Tall, thin, gentle Samuel Rogers looks like a benevolent but eager bird. He was born in 1894, son of an Episcopal clergyman, eldest of four brothers, all of whom bring their wives and children every summer they can to the old family home at Middletown, R. I. Middletowners will recognize the scenery in Dusk at The Grove, may think they can identify some members of the Rogers clan. Prize-winner Rogers graduated from Browrn, took his master's degree at the University of Chicago, drove an ambulance in France. In 1919 he married and went to teach...