Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House depends largely on the committee's choice. It is significant, however, that both President Conant and Provost Buck feel the new man should have a large say in who should occupy the position of PBH's graduate secretary. There is nothing to prevent him also from being a clergyman, like the graduate secretary of Yale's social service center, Dwight Hall...
...several years now, a committee headed by Buck has been investigating the operations of Brooks House, and recently recommended that a religious man be placed in a direct supervisory position. The clergyman would be expected to provide an element of religious guidance while still maintaining the traditional Harvard secular approach, the Provost said...
...drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought of the intimacy" with Dickens...
...reactions shuttle from anger to pity for the benighted clergyman in McPherson who cautioned Postmistress Rozella Switzer that "we must be careful we're not called Communists...
...ineffectual Robert Anderson was no match for his wife Laura when they began squabbling over the children. Laura hated him; she also hated their spiritless daughter Margaret, because she was so much like her father. Thanks to Laura's interventions, Margaret never even got to kiss the cautious clergyman she might have married. Lazy brother Rupert, meantime, whiled away delicious summer nights with a ripe barmaid named Joy. But his mother Laura thought Rupert could do no wrong-not even on the night of Oct. 5, when he picked up a heavy poker and brought it crashing down...