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...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." †Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...
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...
Walter C. Baumgarten, Dresden, Germany, City Planning; Kenneth S. Chester, Boston, Botany; George F. Davidson, New Westminster, B. C., Canada, Classics; Sterling Dow '25, Portland, Maine, History; Merle Fainsod, St. Louis, Missouri, Government; Edward S. Gilfallan, Jr., Kalamazoo, Michigan, Chemistry; Victor M. Hamm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, English; George W. Neff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Architecture; Robert E. Pike, Cambridge, Romance Philology; Willard Van O. Quine, Akron, Ohio, Philosophy; Alan R. Swoozy '29, Wilton, New Hampshire, Economics; Harold E. Wethey, Port Washington, Long Island, New York, Fine Arts...