Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Tui," the nephew, was Arthur Lee Kinsolving-son of a third clerical brother, the Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving, longtime rector of St. Paul's in Baltimore...
After Oxford, Arthur Kinsolving went to Amherst to be, at 25, rector of Grace Church and director of campus religious activities. In his six years at Amherst he guided no fewer than 56 men into the ministry. Then Boston's Trinity Church, the granite Romanesque pile where Phillips Brooks had risen to fame, called him. He accepted, cut the job's $15,000 salary to $10,000 because he was a bachelor. He plunged into Trinity's manifold activities -40 parish organizations, with a budget of $130,000 a year, called on as many...
...pulpit, married Mary Kemp Blagden, daughter of a rich Philadelphia family. Last week it became evident that "Little Tui" had never really stopped thinking of his college work. On Sunday Bishop Wallace John Gardner of New Jersey mounted the pulpit of Trinity Church in Princeton, announced that the rector of Trinity, Boston, was resigning his pulpit, would take over the vacant rectorship of Trinity, Princeton, next September. There was no actual applause, but the congregation felt like cheering...
...blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming the door: "There...
...destroyed) over 500,000 pets, mostly cats and dogs, rather than see them die horribly in air raids. The immediate result was a plague of rats and mice. Anti-rat drives were last month organized throughout Great Britain. In Saxmundham, Suffolk, an anti-rat conference revealed that the rector of neighboring Middleton has to keep his radio going full blast to drown out the sounds of gnawing and squeaking...