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Dean Sperry, this year celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary as head of the School, has recommended to the commission a concern with the general subject of religion in the University and how the Divinity School may find closer ties with the College.
Created out of a Puritan dread of leaving "an illiterate ministry to the churches," the nation's oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating...
Money, always a headache for religious organizations,--where to get it, how to get it, or what to do without it--is the major worry, too, of the Divinity School and University administrations, which have watched the School's twentieth-century books consistently topple over into the red. There are...
The Corporation reviewed the problem and, in the spring of 1945, set up the investigating commission. John Lord O'Brian '96. Washington lawyer and former president of the Alumni Association, was appointed chairman of the seven-man group. John Moore, of Swarthmore College, was to serve as secretary.
Meeting every six to eight weeks for the past two years, evaluating the material it has drawn from the School, the commission has made its decision and, reportedly, will have its findings in the Corporation's hands in time for a pre-June 5 publication. Once the commission's work...