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...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
Biro, a second-year student who won a $10 gift certificate to the B-School's pub for his literary endeavor, addressed his letter to "Mr. Rich Sonbitch at Dewey, Screwon & Howe...
Fifty years have passed since Fisher made that modest promise in her first published book, Serve It Forth. Still at work on two new books, she struggles daily in that endeavor, performing it gracefully and elegantly and evoking thoughts not only of food but of the life that is lived around...
...some houses, making a new video room means buying some old couches. For Adams House, the endeavor is an artistic challenge...
...diligent Harvard undergraduates choose the professions is that the faculty rarely urges them to consider graduate study. In fact, undergraduates work closely with faculty only infrequently. They are instead subjected to "discussions" led mostly by graduate students, who also supply amost all written evaluation of that most important undergraduate endeavor, the critical paper...