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In 1937 many a female Trinity heart skipped a beat when "Little Tui" announced his engagement from the pulpit, married Mary Kemp Blagden, daughter of a rich Philadelphia family. Last week it became evident that "Little Tui" had never really stopped thinking of his college work. On Sunday Bishop Wallace John Gardner of New Jersey mounted the pulpit of Trinity Church in Princeton, announced that the rector of Trinity, Boston, was resigning his pulpit, would take over the vacant rectorship of Trinity, Princeton, next September. There was no actual applause, but the congregation felt like cheering.
Princeton's Trinity is supposed to collaborate with the Procter Foundation, which maintains an Episcopal chaplain for the university. (The chaplaincy is to be vacated in June by the Rev. John Crocker, new rector of Groton School.) Of late years, Trinity's influence on both town & gown has waned. Thus the invitation which the Trinity vestry sent to Arthur Kinsolving this winter was a challenge. That he accepted it, putting aside the easy fame and popularity of Boston for the smaller prospects and pay of Princeton, may have been a surprise to those who take for granted a pride of place in the Episcopal Church. But it was no surprise to the Kinsolvings or their friends.