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...Washington's Mayflower Hotel one night last week gathered 1,000 people to salute Bishop James Hugh Ryan, retiring Rector of the Catholic University of America, who was about to depart to the diocese of Omaha to which the Vatican had promoted him (TIME, Aug. 19,). His purple robes swirling, his broad countenance twinkling, Bishop Ryan shook hands with such men as Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Berry Keenan, Bishop James Edward Freeman and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes from the Episcopal Cathedral. President Roosevelt sent a letter which Postmaster General Farley read. Mr. Justice Pierce...
...felt appeared in last month's Catholic University Bulletin. Calmly running the risk of scandalizing other Catholics, Bishop Ryan's able young assistant, Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, labeled the retiring Rector "intolerant," "restless," "indiscreet," "inhuman" and possessed of a "superiority complex." Excerpts from his editorial...
...intolerant man. That at first glance may seem a severe indictment. . . . He was never intolerant, however, of real scholarship and earnest effort but merely of slipshod methods. . . . Allied with his intolerance, Bishop Ryan possessed a superiority complex. This dreadful sounding affliction was in no sense personal. . . . His authority as Rector of the University was vigorously exercised to support 'his consciousness of the superiority of Catholic culture...
...three men who founded Groton, Billings ("Mr. B.") and Gardner ("Mr. G.") are dead. Endicott Peabody at 78 is as quick of wit and pink of cheek as a man of 60. Every boy and master knows that the Rector misses nothing, that his word is law. Dr. Peabody still coaches one of the intramural crews, still rides horseback. Sometimes Mrs. Peabody rides with him. A handsome, fragile lady, in black velvet dog collar and pearls, the Rector's wife has been a Peabody all her life and the Groton colors, red, white & black, were the colors...
...Groton celebrated its 25th anniversary. Among such alumni as Joseph Clark Grew, Bronson Cutting, Robert Rutherford McCormick, Payne Whitney, George & Richard Whitney, W. Averell Harriman, Warren Delano Robbins, Ellery Sedgwick and Percy Haughton, the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector?" Last year the school was 50 years old. Its alumni had grown to include Arthur Train, Sumner Welles, E. Roland Harriman, F. Trubee Davison, Dean Acheson, Junius S. & Henry S. Morgan, Oliver LaFarge. Again the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector...