Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receipt of thousands of letters from clergymen of all denominations praising the good-will effect of Going My Way and Bells of St. Mary's. As one rabbi wrote: "We note a different attitude from the public. People now have friendly smiles as we pass on the street...
...gulf between Tsar and Commissar seemed not so vast any more. The years had made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's Soviet consul general, hulking Nicholas S. Ananiev, gave a reception for emigre clergymen, showed them pictures of the election in Moscow of Metropolitan Alexei as Patriarch of all Russia...
Protestant clergymen took the lead in founding the ivy-league colleges: Harvard (1636), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), Dartmouth (1769). Between 1830 and 1860 U.S. Methodists founded 34 colleges, U.S. Baptists 21. Clergymen dominated the faculties, often the boards of trustees. By the mid-19th Century, many of these same clergymen were teaching the Sunday school that became as American as the little red schoolhouse...
...Harvard and the University of Chicago, at Wesleyan and Oberlin, associations of clergymen are no longer looked to either for support or for direction. They are but one of the minor pressure groups with which the administration must deal. . . . Yet suggesting to the average clergyman that one of his major obligations is support of the religious program of the nearest college would evoke but little more action from him than the suggestion that he give his support to the college football team...
...This dodging of educational responsibility on the part of Protestant clergymen has had alarming results. . . . Less than half the Protestant children in the United States are even enrolled in religious schools. And the number is declining...