Word: episcopalian
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...reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon 80% and 92%, respectively...
...followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...
...piety-in-politics was concerned, last week left Governor Landon well in the lead over President Roosevelt. Never adept at bringing the name of God resoundingly into his speeches, Episcopalian Roosevelt has all but given up mentioning his Creator. In his acceptance speech last week Methodist Landon showed himself in the evangelical tradition of Republicans Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, all expert at invoking God from the rostrum. Began Nominee Landon: "In accepting this leadership I pray for Divine guidance to make me worthy. . . ." Concluded he: "God grant us, one and all, the strength and the wisdom to do our part...
...worldly, 18th Century Episcopalian named George Washington first conceived the idea of a great cathedral in the U. S. capital. Late in the materialistic 19th Century The Cathedral Church of Saints Peter & Paul was begun on Washington's Mount St. Alban. Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th Century. Already the author of 13 National Cathedral windows, Lawrence Bradford Saint made his- latest pair to flank the stairway to the crypt in the North Transept, as a memorial...
...Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport and two planes, the gift of Manhattan Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, Class...