Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unique setup, their high-school education is provided by the Rabun County public school system, which gives the farm school $1 a year as rent for classrooms, supplies ten teachers and 130 day students (who pay no tuition). To compound these contradictions, overall control is vested in the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and the school trustees make a point of seeing to it that religion is stressed for all 230 students...
Celebrating his 106th birthday in Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, grand old man of Presbyterian missions, founder of the Protestant ecumenical movement, greeted his admirers with a twinkle and recalled a previous birthday at a school in West Brookfield, Mass. "One hundred years ago today," he said, "I faced an audience for the first time. Then, as now, I said...
Harold Luellan, a Sunday-school administrator at Kansas City's Roanoke Presbyterian Church...
...return a weary smile when hailed as "reverend"-or "rev" or "reverent" or even "revenue." Perhaps out of desperation, clergymen are the only Americans who customarily affect the title "doctor" after receiving an honorary degree. Admits Paul F. Bobb (D.D., hon.), associate pastor of Albuquerque's First Presbyterian Church: "I prefer 'mister' but let people use 'doctor' because it doesn't jar me as much as 'reverend...
Mexico resolution, he told members of his own Alameda (N. Mex.) Presbyterian Church that "a kind of 'call me mister' chant has begun. But I'd prefer that you call me Harry...