Word: clerymen
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...January of 1604 there gathered under the roof of the magnificent royal residence of Hampton Court a convocation of clerymen to discuss "things pretended to be amiss in the church." James I, just down from Scotland, had not yet proclaimed to the English people his anti-Presbyterian notions, and the Conference was called to work out a compromise between High and Low Church parties...
Before the ghastly mistake of 1914-1918 men knew their brothers in other countries almost as well as they do today. There were exchange professors, grants for study abroad, Olympic games since 1896, and gatherings of savants, clerymen, laity, and diplomats to discuss concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed...
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