Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular staff began as TIME campus stringers. James Willwerth, a reporter for The Nation section who is now on military leave, first reported for us from the Berkeley campus of the University of California. World Writer Jason McManus and Saigon Correspondent David Greenway both began at Oxford in England...
Language Barrier. The merger brings together two groups that have held certain common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before...
...years at Cambridge, England followed and then Thomson came to Harvard to work for his doctorate under Professor Fairbank. Before completing his thesis, however, he went to Washington to work for Chester Bowles in 1958, for whom he had previously worked during Bowles' congressional campaign. Thomson's thesis--on U.S.-China relations in the 1930's--was finished "on nights and weekends" in Washington...
...story of how Harvard got money from small farmers all over England to educate the Indians of Massachusetts is still a poignant one. It begins with the publication in 1647 of a tract by two Englishmen, "The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New England." The tract proposed that Harvard be made the trustee of funds contributed by the English for Indian education and conversion...
...idea appealed to the English almost as much as it did to Harvard: in 1649, a number of Londoners organized the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (the parent organization of the present Boston foundation). An intensive drive for funds over the entire English countryside yielded 16,000 pounds. But instead of turning the money over to Harvard, the Society gave it to the Commissioners of the United Colonies to distribute. In 1651, as Samuel Morison put it, "President Dunster inquired of the Commissioners whether some small trickle of this silver stream might not irrigate...