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...Cross the salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in 1930. What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education in the Connecticut spirit. That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity...
Promoter of their work is the Rev. Robert Mackintosh, secretary of the Church's Home Board. Leading organizer is Dundee Minister William Bodin. Employers were not encouraging when he first approached them. They doubted that workers would like to have a parson round the shop all the time. Said Mr. Bodin: "If we help your workers to do a better job, then we help...
Instructions range from naval etiquette to how a Christian chaplain should minister to a dying Jewish lad. Chaplains learn, too, how to work closely with clergymen of other faiths. One parson arriving at the college wanted to quit; there were Papists there. He ended up by becoming the buddy of a Catholic priest. Many a Navy sky pilot wonders out loud how he can go back to strictly denominational ministering after...
Asked what she thought of the sermon of an outraged parson, Sarah said: "Everybody knows that, having no religious convictions, this man is a comedian. Therefore I consider that he is acting toward me like a disloyal colleague...
...whole Leverett backfield of Gillis, Jayson, Hurley, and Hardin, and especially Al Aldrich and Walt Parson's in the line, played sterling games as the Bunnies kept Pierson back on their heels for the whole game...