Word: fletcherizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate solution to the sex problem in America must be a religious and ethical one, Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School told the most crowded Law School Forum of the term last night at Rindge Tech...
Professor Fletcher has been at the Theological School since 1934, where he settled down after an extensive career of lecturing and religious work here and in England...
Participants in the discussion of a problem which was brought out prominently before the public early this year by the now-famous "Kinsey Report" will include: Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author of "keep Your Powder Dry"; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg; and Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Social Ethics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Theological School...
Pudgy, petulant Fletcher Bowron was not accustomed to admiration and praise. He had lived up to the prophecy he made when he was elected: "I feel certain that I will prove an unpopular mayor." He had angered almost every important group in town-labor, the newspapers, the merchants, the oilmen, the building trades. He had feuded bitterly with his isman City Council. A reformer with a Calvinist's crusading zeal, he has driven corruption out of City Hall and the Police Department...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...