Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime mover and President of the L. W. C. is Dr. John Alfred Morehead, 62, of Manhattan, native Virginian, onetime Lutheran pastor, onetime (1908-19) President of his alma mater, Roanoke College (Va.). He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, is well-traveled. His task of unifying Lutherans, even on paper, is calculated to require five or six years. Dr. Morehead is now the first world executive of any Protestant denomination...
...patronizing airs which these hybrid academics give themselves. I desire to protest against the absurd reverence which seems to be accorded to a man who has spent two or three years mooning among the dons and returns graciously to accept the offer of an instructorship at his alma mater for the purpose of impressing her loutish sons with his own esotericism and converting them from their boorishness...