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...William A. Sunday, Presbyterian evangelist, returned to Manhattan, lair of Liberals, for the first time since the War year when he came to clean up the "modern Babylon." Said...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Presbyterian...
Secretary of the Interior Work, Presbyterian...
Just too young to sublimate his youthful ardors in the melee for Liberty, Stephen Burroughs, hulking son of a Hanover, N. H., clergyman, boiled up beneath his Presbyterian upbringing and over into melon-snitching, horse-borrowing, neighbor-baiting pestiferation that earned him many beatings and an early discharge from Dartmouth College. Posturing as a ship's doctor, he went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched...
...Princeton figures show a complete abandonment of the original purpose of the college, "to train men for the Presbyterian ministry." In the last 24 years, 210 men entered the ministry...