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Trinity has been looking for a rector to succeed the late, genial, Anglo-Catholic Dr. Caleb Rochford Stetson, who died last June (TIME, June 27). Last October The Chronicle, liberal Episcopal monthly, urged the Trinity vestry to pick a liberal churchman rather than a Catholic as it has usually done. Last week, after lengthy consideration, the vestry made known its choice, a broad churchman who is nonetheless Catholic enough to suit Bishop Manning who immediately confirmed the appointment. He is Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, 46, a slender, six-foot, bespectacled clergyman who began his career as a baker...
...Fleming was ordained in 1911, served as curate in several small western parishes, was rector of Chicago's Church of the Atonement from 1915 to 1927. This post he liked so well that, in 1924, he refused the bishop coadjutorship of Northern Indiana and the bishopric of Olympia, Wash. After holding the rectorship of St. Stephen's in Providence, he became vicar of the Chapel of the Intercession (one of Trinity's seven offspring) in Manhattan in 1930. Twelfth in a line of rectors dating from 1697, he will get something like $20,000 a year,* considerably more than...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...
...anniversary of the death, during a riot, of Stanislaw Waclawski a Christian student at the University of Vilna. ''Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen, Lemberg...
...because he counted 259 paragraphs in an edition of Spinoza's Ethics. Another favorite is 836, which squared gives 698,896, a palindrome (reads both ways). He likes 347 because it is a prime number, the year of Plato's death, and the telephone number of the rector of the University of Vilna [Dr. Aleksander Janusykiewicz]. He remembers that Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 because 1849 is the square...