Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembled one day last week to consider a major crisis of their church. It was not a lack of members; the church's enrollment had ballooned 130% since 1900. But there were no longer enough shepherds to minister to this record flock. In the same 49 years the number of active ministers had grown by a mere...
...aspirants for the ministry will probably end up on the layman's side of the chancel rail. Even with an ambitious building program well under way, Virginia Theological Seminary will be able to accept only 40% of this year's close-to-200 applicants. The total number of graduates from all Episcopal seminaries in 1949 will be only 190, as against an estimated 187 clergymen who will be withdrawn during the year because of death, retirement, etc. More than on any other single factor, the Alexandria conference agreed, the future of the Episcopal Church seems to depend upon...
Bowdoin pitted their best men against the bottom of Harvard's line-up, a practice frowned upon in the best golfing circles. Bob Mtson and Dick O'Keefe, the Crimson's number six and even men, scored 74's and beat two of Bowdoin's best players...
...most probable boating for today is : Louis McCagg, stroke, George Gifford, at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, number four oar in doubt, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark is the coxswain...
Harvey Love, the freshman crew coach, is contemplating several changes in the boating he started last week. A witch in the number four car, occupied in the season's opening race by Clem Despard, is especially probable because of the improvement of the number four man rowing thus far in the second boat...