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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...
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...
...quite a birthday present: $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...Williams squad is Rod Starke, a fast, alert goalie who was one of the big factors in the Ephmen's victory last year. Coach Ralph Townsend has 12 returning lettermen from the '52 squad, seven of them starters. Along with Starke, leading attack man Captain Bruce Van Dusen will be another for Bruce Munro's men to reckon with. Though he has been feeding and assisting on most of the scores, he can shoot very well from either side...