Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...defended by President Porter, requires the choice of a clergyman, a consideration which bars out such men as ex-President White of Cornell; President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, General Francis A. Walker, and certain members of the faculty whose names have been proposed. True, it would be easy to ordain either of such men as was done in President Woolsey's case, but it is not likely that such a step will be taken. At present, the indications are that the professor of Sacred Literature, Timothy Dwight, has the inside track. He is said to be a man of liberal...