Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REV. L. C. McHuGH...
...colored prettily and let her mother answer for her: "I should say they will have lots of children." At first, Rainier accepted the questions and pictures serenely, but then the pressing of the press became too much. "After all," he muttered to his chaplain and good friend, the Very Rev. Francis Tucker, "I don't belong...
...Right Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Lord Bishop of Durham, was not an unexpected choice. His rise from curate of a Liverpool parish church in 1928 to bishop in 1952 was considered a rapid one; at 51 he is reputed to be one of the church's best public speakers, is known as a scholarly High-churchman with several books on theology to his credit. A Cambridge man, and son of a Cambridge don (a Congregationalist preacher whom he eventually confirmed in the Church of England), Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon...
Many a Bible Belt church found itself in a strange position this Christmas season: it was running out of poor. ¶In his little Oak Grove Baptist Church near Springfield, Tenn., the Rev. John Richard Christian found little use for the $40 he had raised for Christmas giving, in the end, used it for such charity as presents for shut-ins (though not necessarily poor ones...
Another small prep school--Groton--has met the challenge of selection more successfully, largely because the headmaster, the Rev. John Crocker '22 has maintained the traditional purpose of the school. He does not believe in selecting students solely on their intellect. 'Groton's purpose, according to him, is "to develop boys in body, mind, and spirit." Many average boys are "awfully happy here," he notes. The large number of boys who regularly gain admission to Harvard--usually about 15 from a class of 40--would seem to indicate that he has discovered a satisfactory way to run a school...