Word: brauer
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...marginal denominational seminaries are the ones mostly marking time. The big ones are getting bigger. The interdenominational elite-Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Union-get more than they can take. At the University of Chicago Divinity School, reports Dean Jerald Brauer, applications are 90% higher than at the same time last year...
...attitude of theological students these days, says Chicago's Brauer, is "deeply skeptical, but searching." Harvard's Dr. J. Lawrence Burkholder finds that "almost all the students are some what apprehensive when it comes to their faith." Many find serious gaps in the theology that comes to them across the lectern. Says George Pickering, 25, a senior at Chicago: "Problems like disarmament, radiation-they so transcend the kind of 'shall I spit at my aunt?' kind of ethics that we're lost. Ethics have been boxed in over the ages into a kind of gentility...
Mackey has exchanged several letters with Richard D. Brauer, chairman of the Harvard Mathematics Department, since the Penn contact. Brauer said yesterday that Mackey and Bott had both decided to spend next year at the University, and that he was virtually certain Mackey would remain permanently...
...Brauer said he had just received a letter from Bott indicating Bott will probably stay. He did note, however, that since Bott is a topologist, and since Princeton has several other topologists with whom he could work, Bott might well find the Princeton offer attractive...
...Westheimer and Brauer agreed was "very difficult" to distinguish background from higher and noted that both were used as for placement in accelerated...