Word: clergyman
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...Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked his way through Washington College...
...Gogh was not a Frenchman. He was born in Zundert, Brabant province, The Netherlands, son of a Dutch clergyman and his wife, Anna Cornelia. It is true that his distinctive yellow coloring was developed during his residence...
During his 69 years on this planet, Alan Spencer Hawkesworth of Washington, D. C., by profession a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, has served as mathematician in the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such...
...spend three years winning the seminary's lowest degree, Bachelor of Divinity. Other degrees a student may strive for are Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Theology and, jointly from Union and Columbia University, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. (The degree which enables many a clergyman to call himself "Dr." is an honorary one of Doctor of Divinity...
...took the presidents of five life insurance companies. Though no one has yet been named to succeed Ulysses Sherman Brandt of Ohio State Life. Massachusetts Mutual elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North...