Word: rectoral
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...late rector of St. Paul's School was a man whose voice was sonorous and whose sentiments had style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took...
...social work in New Haven's slums. At Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge he stood out as the most respected, though youngest, member of his class. He was ordained a priest at 24, while assisting at Boston's famed, gloomy Trinity Church, where later he became rector. In 1930, at 39, he was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts...
Quentin Huang, who before the war had been rector of a parish in Nanchang for about ten years, will be Bishop of Kunming, a diocese covering the two southeast provinces of Yunnan and Kweichow. Almost one and a half times as large as California (158,297 sq. mi.), it has an estimated population of 24,000,000; 20% of its people are tribal, all are poor. Only a handful are Christian. Said Bishop Huang after his consecration: "Our opportunities are many, our challenges are great-and our needs in personnel and funds are enormous...
...rector, handsome, white-haired Big Ed will be kind of chairman of the board of the university, while President John Lloyd Newcomb, 64, continues to shape educational policy...
...Rector Stettinius hopes to keep a close eye on Virginia's new Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Service and International Affairs.* He will invite his diplomatic buddies down to speak, will himself be a proper subject of study as onetime Secretary of State and first U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...