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...Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought...
Meeting in Indianapolis last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they...
President Dr. John R. Mott, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer and Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling were each mentioned as possible next president of the Federal Council. But most people were sure last week that another man had already been slated for the job-Dr. Albert William Beaven, 50. president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, onetime (1930-31) president of the Northern Baptist Convention...
Four years ago when Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell was made president there were murmurings concerning his modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied...
...When Dr. Beaven preached his farewell sermon, there was weeping in Lake Avenue Baptist Church. Under its new president Colgate-Rochester (product of a merger in 1928) has grown in stature. This autumn was dedicated its new $2,000,000 Gothic plant, largely the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fond of bowling as well as of chopping wood. Dr. Beaven saw to it that bowling alleys were built at the Divinity School. He is tall, well set up, grey-haired, father of three (a fourth child died). On his way to Indianapolis last week Dr. Beaven stopped...