Word: dusen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, March 8). The story of the Gloomy Dean is just one example of how TIME has chronicled the thoughts and actions of newsmakers in the world of the spirit. Another example is the Easter cover story this week on Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary, and the third religious figure to appear on the cover of TIME within the past year. (The others: Pope Pius XII and Bishop Dibelius, head of the German Evangelical Church...
...asked if anyone would like to hear more about the conference before making up his mind, the silence became even stonier. Desperately, the seminarian asked if any boy would agree to receive promotional literature just in case someone might develop an interest, and at this point Class President Van Dusen spoke up. The result was that when Van Dusen turned up at Princeton the next year, the seminarian promptly recognized him and persuaded him to serve as assistant business manager of the next youth conference. In this casual way began the career of one of the great conferees of modern...
Islands of Inactivity. In Van Dusen's day at Princeton (it was also F. Scott Fitzgerald's day), the contemptuous tag for fellows like Pit was apt to be "Christ-er." Pit spent two summers as counselor at a Princeton-run camp for underprivileged children, and became so interested in social problems that he followed up some of the families during the school year. He joined a boycott of the undergraduate eating clubs, in a vain attempt to force them to offer membership to any and all upperclassmen. Exclusion, he maintained, was "undemocratic and un-Christian...
Ironically enough, the heads of Union and Yale Seminaries, Henry P. Van Dusen and Liston pope, on the committee which is searching for a new dean for the School, must face seeing Harvard threatening literally to seal their best professors from under their noses. Paul Tillich's world-famous professor of Philosophical Theology from Union, will come here next year as a University Professor Tillich's presence on the faculty will immediately increase the Divinity School's prestige...
...Religion is gaining ground-morality is losing ground," said Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary at an interdenominational seminar. "This is one of the most surprising and overlooked facts in America today . . . Churches possess a larger and wider allegiance . . . than ever before," but crime, alcoholism, divorce and sexual laxity are on the alarming increase. "Either there will be a moral renewal or [religion's gains] will fritter out into futility...