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...Arthur Burghardt, 25, who wrote and starred in the Douglass drama, got up the next morning, drank a bottle of champagne and then went to Manhattan's federal courthouse and gave himself up to start a five-year prison term for rejecting induction into the Army...
...that the New York move hurt Woodstock academically. But Woodstock's president, Teilhardian Scholar Christopher F. Mooney, points out that the school was received enthusiastically in New York's academic community. It retained such luminaries as Theologians Avery Dulles (son of John Foster Dulles) and Walter J. Burghardt (one of the two U.S. members of the papal Theological Commission). This year 130 students from Union Theological registered for Woodstock courses, and the school was building close alliances with Columbia University's history and religion departments...
Many of the men at Woodstock are clearly angry at the decision. Himself a convert to the Manhattan experiment, Father Burghardt, editor of the order's prestigious quarterly, Theological Studies, argues that "experimentation with the different life-styles available in New York is indispensable for our students if we are to prepare them for a contemporary ministry. The decision to close Woodstock has been interpreted by many as another sign that the Society of Jesus has lost its great vision, its instinct for leadership, its openness to the world." Second-Year Student Harry Fogarty groused that...
William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, the year the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. He died August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, on the eve of the Great March on Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement...