Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the bleak late-Victorian beamed roof of Westminster Church House last week sat the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
...away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage it." At the end of the service he took up a collection...
...first baseball work-out of the season was held yesterday afternoon when 25 candidates for battery positions on the University team reported to Coaches Mitchell and Davidson in the Briggs Cage for official practice. Sixteen Freshmen began twirling at 4 o'clock under Coach Rufus Bond who will guide the Freshman nine this season...
Although originally scheduled to start February 15, practice for the University and Freshman teams does not begin until February 23, when all battery men will get their first work-out under the direction of Coaches Fred Mitchell and Claude Davidson. University fielders will be called out on February 29, and the Freshman fielders on March 7, Prospects for the season look none too bright, as only eight veterans from last year's team are available. They are Captain A. J. Lupien '32, Reginald Fincke, Jr. '32, R. D. Kiernan '33, J. P. McCaffrey '32, E. A. Mays...