Word: dusen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knowledge and skills of Modern Civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control, in this land of plenty, glutted with wealth, we lack the essential ethical currency for its use, and so we are threatened with cultural bankruptcy." The challenger was Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the faculty of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Last week, in a tightly reasoned "tract for the times"-God in Education (Scribner; $2)-Van Dusen sounded a call for a fundamental reversal in the whole philosophy of U.S. education...
...What Van Dusen wants is a great return to religion in U.S. schools, from the primary grades to the universities-and not merely as a course in itself, but also as the guiding principle of the whole educational process. "Our world cries pitiably for the fruits of Christian Faith," says Van Dusen. "What is required-what alone might prove adequate-is revolution, conversion, an about-face, in both the assumptions and the goals of our living; and, likewise, of the training of our youth . . . Every aspect of the philosophy and structure and spirit of education cries for radical remaking...
Winners for the Elephants in order of the House ladder were: Steve Gotschalk, Lee Schimburg, George Baker, Steve Rosenfeld, Jim Heighman, Forest Hansen, and Rick Rosenfeld. The corresponding Adams players were Mike Levine, Bob Mehlman, Skiddy Lund, Bob Van Dusen, Art Lawson, Jasper McKee, and Bob Atkinson...
...Bishop Sherrill's new ecumenical team there are new denominational faces, and this may be a major harbinger of hope. Writes Union Theological Seminary President Henry Pitney Van Dusen in the current issue of his seminary's Quarterly Review: "The early development of all the ecumenical movements was very largely the handiwork of 'ecumenical enthusiasts' ('ecumaniacs,' someone has called them) . . . With the domestication of these ecumenical bodies within the churches, their places are being taken by denominational officers. The 'ecumaniacs' are giving place to 'ecclesiastical wheel-horses...
Also on the Central Committee's agenda were plans for the next full meeting of the World Council, scheduled for Evanston, Ill. in 1953. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, expressed "grave doubt if we will be able to meet in 1953," and suggested that the committee might well postpone setting a theme for that meeting. The committee concurred...