Word: kentigern
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...Prayer jor the Living the Rev. J. G. ("Tired Tim") Petrie, Headmaster of St. Kentigern's School, Pitgoorlie Bay, Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired...
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