Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kerosene lamps shed garish glimmer on yellow pine walls, rows of stolid Vermonters, a white-surpliced young rector. The President and his wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour...
...sermon will be delivered by Reverend Frank H. Nelson, Rector of Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, and during the exercises degrees will be conferred upon men graduating from the school...
...commencement exercises of the Episcopal Theological School will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow in St. John's Memorial Chapel on Brattle Street. Degrees will be conferred at the same time. The sermon will be delivered by the Reverend Frank H. Nelson, Rector of Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. At 5 o'clock tomorrow, the Alumni service will be conducted, and the Reverend Joseph A. Leighton, Professor of Philosophy in Ohio State University, will deliver the sermon...
Doubtless Dr. Robert Norwood, rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, knew most of these facts when he spoke before the Episcopal Church Congress in Richmond, Va., last week. At any rate he berated well such devotees, taking some of his words out of their very mouths. Said...
Married. Dr. William S. Rainsford, 76, "outspoken" Manhattan clergyman, formerly rector of St. George's Church; to Miss Harriet Rogers, 46, granddaughter of the late famed Manhattan capitalist, Hamilton Fish...