Word: episcopalian
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...young minister lately out of theological seminary does not, as a rule, look for assignment to a rundown church in the midst of an urban slum. But that was just what Robert W. Castle Jr. had in mind. Graduating from New Haven's Berkeley Divinity School, crew-cut Episcopalian Castle put in five years at two suburban New Jersey parishes, chafed all the while for a city mission. Then he was asked to take over St. John's in Jersey City, a crumbling brownstone and granite edifice which the Episcopal diocese of Newark had thought of shutting down...
...Iowa-born Historian Pusey, 55, himself a Harvardman ('28), who was president of Wisconsin's little Lawrence College when he was named Harvard's 24th president in 1953. Pusey has shown, says one professor, "the dedication to Harvard of a saint to his monastery." Deeply religious, Episcopalian Pusey has revamped Harvard's divinity school. A stout defender of academic freedom, he stood up to Joe McCarthy when the Senator tried to pillory Harvard as a "hotbed of Communists." An able fund raiser, he brought off an $82.5 million drive for Harvard College...
...also gained a reputation for honesty from his family back which he mentions frequently. is the son of an Episcopalian and grandson of the founder and of Groton Academy...
...more scrutable than a new wife or a secondhand car, but consumers' research helps. Last week students at Trinity College (1,000 men) in Hartford. Conn., put out an exhaustive critique on the school, from architecture to public relations and professorial performance. They politely concluded that Episcopalian-founded (1823) Trinity is "one of the finest schools in the nation." But to "improve further,'' Trinity is in urgent need of correcting...
...Enter the Minister and his wife, right. He is carrying a large suitcase, an umbrella, and a canteen. She carries another, smaller suitcase covered with travel stickers, and has a huge purse slung from her shoulder. He wears a black, vested suit with Episcopalian collar; She is plainly and decently dressed, past middle age and, like her husband, obviously of tough pioneer stock. They both seem overheated and fatigued...