Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree stands out clearly. More than three quarters of those whose names are here listed are or have been teachers, almost all of them in universities or colleges. Next in number come men engaged in research apart from teaching, but it is noteworthy that the list includes 18 clergymen, 15 presidents of universities or colleges, 14 men engaged in editorial work, seven librarians, six physicians, four men in diplomatic or consular service, two members of Congress, two United States Senators, and a Prime Minister of Canada. There are also several high officials of important business organizations. It may fairly...
First of these is Soprano Ethel Dreda Aves, niece and daughter of Episcopalian clergymen, her uncle being Bishop of Mexico. When she left her home in Galveston, to cultivate her voice her father stormed: "I would sooner see you dead here at my feet than appearing behind the footlights of a stage...
...children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen's pay will be three-fourths that of clergymen...
Illinois Episcopal clergymen assembled at Freeport, Ill., last week to analyze the reluctance of divinity school graduates to settle in small towns. It has become as difficult for a country community to hold a parson as it has been to hold a physician. Rev. H. W. Foreman of Manhattan, national director of rural work for the Episcopal Church, told the Illinois men that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger...
...public or quasi-public positions." The presidency of the American Chamber of Commerce and of five city chambers are held by graduates of the Harvard Law School. Hundreds hold positions as directors or committee members in banks. Charitable institutions public utilities and various other corporations. Journalists, authors, editors, publishers, clergymen, brokers, physicians, and students make up the remaining several hundred not already accounted...