Word: christe
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...little of the national attention paid to its more famous neighbors. Nonetheless, with 15,031 full-time students, B.U. is now the nation's third largest private university, after Brigham Young and N.Y.U. Last week, to succeed retiring President Harold Case, Boston U.'s trustees named Arland Christ-Janer, 44, who for the past six years has been president of Iowa's Cornell College...
...list of 275 nominees, Christ-Janer represents something of a break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...
...Christ-Janer takes over an institution that has come a long way since its founding as a Methodist theological seminary in 1869. (B.U. is still considered a Methodist-affiliated school, but gets no support from the church.) Under Harold Case, the university expanded from a modest school with buildings scattered all across town to a bustling university concentrated on a strikingly modern 45-acre campus. Strong in medicine and law, B.U. is no longer mainly a commuter school, and more than half of its students come from out side Massachusetts...
...appointment of Christ-Janer adds to the growing reputation of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Beloit, Carleton, Coe, Cornell, Grinnell, Knox, Lawrence, Monmouth, Ripon and St. Olaf) as a breeding ground for major-university presidents. In 1964, Grinnell's Howard Bowen stepped up to the University of Iowa, while Lawrence has lost two former presidents to other and larger institutions-Nathan Pusey to Harvard and Douglas Knight to Duke...
...Terror." In 1953, Vida Hope, director of the London musical hit, The Boy Friend-a campy spoof of the 1920s-offered Julie the lead in the Broadway company. "My first thought," she remembers, "was 'Oh, good Christ, the idea of leaving my home and family'-I couldn't do it." But she tried the idea on "my Dad-my real Dad-the wisest and dearest man I knew." Said Dad: Take it. On the night of the New York opening, Julie turned 19-and the critics turned out the superlatives. She was a star...