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...Student Union leaders were first put on the carpet last November, because Ray had invited Vanderbilt University's Dr. Nels Ferre, a liberal Christian theologian to give the principal speech at their state convention. General board members' heard that Congregationalist Ferre does not believe in the virgin birth,-and they quickly canceled his appearance. Since then, the board has been digging into charges that the Baptist student pastors have been guiding their young congregations independent of regular church supervision...
Dine Together. When Congregationalist Blaisdell first arrived at Claremont in 1910, he moved into a world that was anything but prosperous. Pomona College, which he took over, was a dingy, debt-ridden place with an enrollment of 300 and only five buildings. Blaisdell immediately set to work writing alumni for funds. He made speeches, broadcast the name of Pomona across the state. By the end of World War I. Pomona had 750 students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus...
...bedside, and, judging by the religious content of his speeches, he reads it. His expression of religious faith is more than politician's lip service. Writing in the April Reader's Digest, Roving Editor Stanley High, one of Ike's campaign advisers and once a Congregationalist lay preacher, explains that, in Ike's lexicon, the "spiritual" needs of the U.S. rank ahead of political or economic ones...
Life with Father. "Teaching," says Wilder, "is a natural expression of mine. It is part of my inheritance." His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a Maine Congregationalist who took the pledge at seven, a Ph.D. in economics at Yale, and finally bought a newspaper in Madison, Wis. By the time a set of twins came along (Thornton's brother was stillborn), Amos Wilder had developed his own notions of education. Outside his own home, he was all charm and wit; as an after-dinner speaker, he could rival Chauncey Depew. But in his own home, he was a dominie...
...Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed his thesis on Calvinism : Dr. M. Willard Lampe (Presbyterian), the School of Religion's director, Dr. Marcus Bach (Evangelical and Reformed), Father Robert Welch (Catholic), the Rev. Cyrus Pangborn (Congregationalist). Rabbi Frederick Bargebuhr, plus two members of the university's history department...