Well, feathers are not vestments, ordinands are not birds and it's the chickens, really, who most desperately cling to the arguments against ordaining women.
Women had still to be admitted to the college, and the male ordinands were unaccustomed to having a woman as their head; she soon won their confidence.
Many ordinands specified some type of full-time work experience prior to entering the seminary, most often in education, accounting, finance or insurance.
