Word: tertius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother-in-law, the pastor of Washington's Congregational Church, son of Princeton's late beloved little literary patriarch, Dr. Henry van Dyke...
...leaving the church for Gunnery, Headmaster van Dyke at 50 is doing what his famed father did at almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout...
HENRY VAN DYKE-Tertius van Dyke-Harper...
...culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics, its methodical report of his achievements as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, its detailed...
...Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels in Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents. At the age of 26 he became pastor of the United Congregational Church in fashionable Newport, married happily...