Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cowley Fathers Are Familiar Sight...
...Cowley fathers, who will occupy their new home as soon as it is completed this spring, are already a familiar sight, in their flowing black capes and broad-brimmed hats, about the Yard and Harvard square. At present those of them who are administering to the needs of Harvard students are living in a small house at 14 Oxford street, rented from the University. At their head is the Rev. Granville M. Williams, although the work is under the general supervision of the Rev. Spence Burton '04, father superior of the Boston mission...
Contrary to the impression some have gained from their habit, the order is not a Roman Catholic one, but is a part of the American Episcopal Church and the Church of England. Its priests have come to be known as the "Cowley fathers" from the mother house of the entire order, which is at Cowley St. John, Oxford, England...
...newspaper): "Many University students ought to be seriously jolted. . . . It is impossible to deny these indictments." Said The Daily Princetonian (Princeton's daily): "The explanation for this state of affairs can be perhaps partially explained by the viewpoint which many college men hold, as expressed by W. H. Cowley, a former member of Dartmouth's student committee on the curriculum: 'Our professors stand on platforms like little gods and speak in pale blue voices, and when blue book time comes, we regurgitate. . . . Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education...
...Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded to the Witherspoon Auditorium, he would have heard them sing a song, Hail, Mary. Then he would have heard theological utterances; which, apparently to the satisfaction of all present, gave the coupe de grace to certain people variously styled as heretics...