Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most of their $222-a-year...
...Crazy Deacon was the only one of Lee's generals who had shown brilliance and had won a decisive engagement. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, 38, a mediocre instructor at Virginia Military Institute, a devout Presbyterian deacon, had been wounded in the hand at Manassas and had fought for the rest of the day with one arm upraised to stop the bleeding. Some of his men thought he was invoking the blessing of heaven. When another officer rode up to say, "General, they are beating us back," Jackson replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet...
...Formed a unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
...Organized a British Council of Churches, whose 112 Anglican, Presbyterian and Nonconformist members will serve as "an official representative organization for common planning and action." The closest counterpart is America's Federal Council of Churches-which again has never had such a galaxy of top-flight sponsorship...
Among the famed U.S. structures Cram designed or helped design are Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at West Point and Princeton University, Pittsburgh's $4,000,000 East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location...