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...left for the U.S. for his health (asthma). After he left, his enemies in Formosa kicked up a swirl of charges that he had absconded with millions and was living in a $189-a-day hotel suite in New York. K. C. Wu kept silent, set up housekeeping in Evanston, Ill., and began lecturing to make his living. His wife did the cooking and he did the dishes. From time to time, he wrote Chiang, refuting the charges and offering his resignation as minister without portfolio. He got no reply. Finally, he was goaded into a statement; health...
...Evanston (Ill.) Township High School has 83 seniors in college-level history, English, mathematics, French and Spanish. "After a taste of one or two of the courses," says Superintendent Lloyd S. Michael, "some of the students have told me: 'If college is anything like this, I can hardly wait...
...John Heuss planned to be when he was an undergraduate at St. Stephen's (now Bard) College in Annandale-on-Hudson. He decided to learn a bit more about the Christian influence on sociology, and took a six-month leave to study at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The six months stretched to two years, and John Heuss became an Episcopal priest. In 1947 Heuss began to make a national name for himself as first chairman of the Episcopal Church's education program. Five years later, he received the call to Trinity...
...August 1954, at Evanston, Ill., the World Council of Churches will hold the second General Assembly in its five-year history. The 750 churchmen participating will represent an estimated 168,000,000 Protestant and Orthodox Christians. As assembly time gets closer, most of the world's Protestant theologians are getting deeper and deeper in the preliminary debate over the council's agreed theme: Christ-the Hope of the World...
Most of the world's Protestant leaders will come to Evanston. Among them: Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Bishops G. Bromley Oxnam and Henry Knox Sherrill and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr from the U.S.* But Dr. Visser 't Hooft was hopeful that delegates from the Iron Curtain churches would be there, too. Said he: "It's a way to emphasize Christian fellowship, and some of these churches have a great deal to give...