Word: clergyman
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With eyes that never left the sheaf of notes in his hand, His Majesty King George V faced a gold-plated microphone* and spoke with the pleasant sing-song voice of a benevolent clergyman. Said...
President Lowell's version of the facts appears in his answer to the clergyman, who had become interested in the special case of Mrs. Emma Trafton...
...Noble lectures were founded in 1897 by Mrs. Noble in memory of her husband who was an Episcopal clergyman. Her purpose in establishing the fund for these lectures was to continue the influence and mission of her husband as a minister, and to arouse the interest of Harvard students in the Christian ministry...
...professional or laboring class, skilled or unskilled.* Spurred by this fact, a unique form of philanthropy was suggested last week at a Manhattan luncheon of the American Eugenics Society by hearty, bearded President Dr. Clarence Gordon Campbell of the Eugenics Research Association. Briefly, what he proposed was that every clergyman be given a bonus for each baby he begets. Said he: "Any proposal to encourage breeding and to increase the progeny of the clergy by supplementing their stipend for the proper rearing of such progeny is not only a human obligation but a eugenic measure which contains the greatest promise...
...Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...