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What kind of man do Methodists want their minister to be? To find out, Dr. Murray H. Leiffer of Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern made a two-year survey. To all district lay leaders,* plus samplings of Methodist women and youth, Dr. Leiffer's Bureau of Social Research sent a formidable questionnaire. The result, published this week in book form and titled The Layman Looks at the Minister (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $1.50), makes 160 pages of required reading for theological students. Laymen will find it an absorbing composite of the country's largest Protestant church body...
Wild gusts of fine powder buffeted the Harvard Ski hut in Jackson, New Hampshire last night, and seemed to be heading toward Pinkham Notch, according to a late report from the Weather Bureau station of Mt. Washington...
These absent-minded students provide the bureau with it's least interesting material. Although nothing really sensational has ever turned up, there are such diverse articles there now as an old mortarboard, several neckties, and an assortment of sweaters, aigrette lighters and cases. "Last year we had a kitten in here, but no one ever claimed it," Miss Delano confides, "so we finally had to get rid of the thing...
Despite sickness which prevented two speakers, one of them President Conant, from making their appearances, the first sessions of a four-day long symposium on large scale calculating machines, sponsored by the University and the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, began yesterday at the official opening of the new computation laboratory...
Again on the international level, the conference proposed activities of practical use. Not only did it go on record strongly in favor of full participation in international student organizations, but it suggested a number of functions regarding student exchanges and student travel abroad. One proposal provides for a "bureau that will disseminate and publicize information about courses and opportunities for specialization in foreign universities for American students, and for foreign students in America...