Word: fellowships
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...faith in an inerrant Bible compatible with the insights of science and psychology? At least 18,000 U.S. college students believe that the answer is unquestionably yes. To prove it, they combine classroom study with missions to fellow students in the fast-growing Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship...
Founded by a group of Cambridge University undergraduates in 1877, the fellowship organized an American branch in 1940. There are now chapters on 800 U.S. campuses, most of them secular rather than church-related, and within the last four years membership has doubled. Between Christmas and New Year's Day more than 7,000 students gave up part of their vacation to gather on the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois for the largest meeting in the fellowship's history, whose threefold theme summed up the students' conservative Christian zeal: "Change Unparalleled, Witness Unashamed, Triumph...
Inter-Varsity aims to keep alive the youthful faith of young Christians on secular campuses, introduce the nominal believer to the "living personality" of Jesus, and persuade at least a few chapter members to join foreign missions. The fellowship has a full-time adult staff of 105, including 70 traveling "coaches" who help out the individual chapters. Members usually meet once a week for prayer and Bible study, spend many of their off-duty hours trying to convert fellow students. At the University of Illinois, for example, the Inter-Varsity chapter sends a welcoming letter to freshmen, sponsors lectures...
Harvard has received $150,000 from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, it was announced last Sunday. Wilson grants are made annually to advance graduate education and to aid particular students who have completed more than one year of graduate study...
...largest sum, $15,000, went to the Chemistry Department for aid in basic research. A $1200 fellowship for a graduate teaching assistant will be accompanied by an additional $500 grant to the Department...