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Parish House: RECTOR, specifically, one who rules, governs or administers. In the Established Church of England a clergyman who has the care of a parish and has the parsonage and tithes—the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate, as distinguished from a vicar; in the Roman Catholic Church, the head of a religious house; among the Jesuits, the head of a house that is a seminary or college; in Scotland, the head-master of an academy or important public school; in France and Scotland, the principal of a university; in England, the heads of Exeter and Lincoln colleges, Oxford.
Social settlements and parish houses were among the first popular efforts to house and supervise recreational and cultural activities for children and adults, Hull House in Chicago, established 1889, being one of the earliest and best known. One of the earliest of the organizations for youth, developed throughout the country, was the Young Men's Christian Association with its buildings usually including a gymnasium, game rooms and a swimming pool.
ROMAN, ro-maN', Andre Bienvenu, American politician : b. St. Landry Parish, La., March5, 1795 ; d. New Orleans, Jan. 28, 1866. After graduation from St. Mary's College, Baltimore, MA, in 1815, he entered the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1818 and, except for a biennium (1826-1828) as a parish (county) judge, served therein until 1831. As one of Louisiana's ablest governors (1831-1835, 1839-1843), Roman fostered measures to clear rivers, to drain swamps, to aid agriculture, to establish public education. He participated in state constitutional conventions (1845, 1852) and at the state secession convention (1861) voted for withdrawal from the Union.
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