Clinical Laboratory

A pioneer institutional church in the U. S. was St. George's (Episcopal) on Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square. When its most famed rector. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, arrived in 1883 he asked and got, from a vestry of which the elder J. P. Morgan was a member, $10,000 a year to spend as he pleased on parish clubs, a summer camp, gymnasium and schoolroom. Dr. Rainsford died at 83 in 1933. Dedicated to him on his birthday last Sunday was a memorial of which he would have approved -- Rainsford House, first innovation of St. George's rector of the last two years, Rev. Elmore McNeill McKee.

A tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase-coiner, Rector McKee calls Rainsford House a "clinical laboratory." declares he hopes to attract the "best leadership" arriving in Manhattan every year, to provide it with channels for "significant service."

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