Word: rectoric
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...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...
...Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, glorifying God and the American girl, with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John looking on. They are gone. The famed "eurythmic ritual," so notable a feature of the afternoon services in the Manhattan church last year, will be dispensed with this season, announced the Rector, Dr. William Norman Guthrie. His reasons for discontinuing the dances were described by Dr. Guthrie as "rather physical than spiritual." The difficulties of their preparation, together with the necessity for cutting down the Church's budget, has made it unwise to keep them...
September 21.--The Rev. Karl Reiland, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City...
February 8.--The Rev. John Howard Melish, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New York...
...Reverend Karl Reiland, rector of St. George's Church, New York, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...