Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Carolina Baptist Convention voted to allow Charleston's Baptist College to negotiate for $2.5 million in federal loans to construct a library and a dormitory. Virginia's Baptist leaders decided to let the trustees of individual institutions determine whether or not to take Government grants. At Fort Worth, delegates to the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted 2,960 to 40 to cut its official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants...
Around the Stump. The reason for the delegates' decision at Fort Worth was summarized by Dr. E. S. James, editor emeritus of Texas' Baptist Standard. "The school is too fine an institution to let it die or stand idle while public-supported institutions smother it," he said. A committee is studying whether other schools subsidized by the Texas Baptist Convention be made independent so that they too can benefit from Government aid. Other state conventions were not so forthright in dealing with the dilemma of federal aid. The Georgia Baptist Convention voted to let a church-run hospital...
...Festival, which will be co-sponsored by Afro and Winthrop House in March, will feature only black artists. James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Dizzie Gillespie, the Abysynnian Baptist Choir of Newark, N.J., and a street theatre group from New York have been invited, but none of them has accepted...
...Side. Since he moved to Manhattan, Nixon has occasionally worshiped at Calvary Baptist Church and St. Thomas Episcopal. But more often than not he attends Sunday services at Peale's Marble Collegiate Church. Although Nixon has never formally joined the congregation, he is an attentive listener who sometimes takes notes during sermons and joins in the hymn singing. Daughter Julie will be married to David Eisenhower at Marble Collegiate, and last week the Nixon family worshiped there again, with David as their guest. They heard a typical Peale sermon called "Never Doubt-God Is on Your Side," which reflected...
...will admit 11.3 per cent blacks and Brown 5.6 per cent to the class of '73. By the class of '77, 11.1 per cent of Brown's entering class and 12.5 per cent of Pembroke's will be black The black strikers, who spent yesterday in the Congdon Street Baptist Church, had no immediate comment...