Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild-mannered, lofty-minded Anglican is Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, 68-brother of Viscount Cecil and of the Bishop of Exeter-for 26 years an M. P. for Oxford University, now provost of Eton. Living in a stratosphere of piety, Lord Hugh regards the Established Church as above and apart from England's Protestant sects. "Scandalous"' it was, to him, when some years ago the Bishop of Liverpool announced that he would let Unitarians be guest preachers in his cathedral. Last week in London, in a speech before the Assembly of the Church of England, Churchman Cecil...
...Haven, Charles Seymour, former Provost and successor to D. James Rowland Angell, will enter his now position. At the opening of the College two weeks age, President Seymour was accorded one of the most tumultuous receptions in Yale's long and tumultuous history as Undergraduates cheered him for ten full minutes...
...Provost Marshal: Winfield Scott, U. S. commander in the Mexican...
...dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
...true ever since the German Holbein and later the Flemish Van Dyke came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. Richly represented was the capable if uninspired work of British official portraitists. Among the best was Gerald F. Kelly's picture of the late famed Provost of Eton and writer of immortal ghost stories, Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James...