Word: gills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallett and newcomers Stan Merkel and Bill Gill all did a lot to break up the strong Indian forward rushes, but in general Dartmouth's heavier scrum dominated the game. The Crimson was hampered by the loss of Bob Huff with a broken rib, and the absence of Tom Fritz with a bad sunburn...
...People are examined too much and too frequently"--Richard T. Gill '48, Senior Tutor of Leverett House and a member...
...original offense." But the British have turned generously to help the 667,000 refugees from Communist China. So have the Christian missions from the U.S.. "healing, counseling, running schools, staffing nurseries, opening clinics, building family centers." The most valuable mission activity in terms of the future, says Gill, is being done on university campuses supported by various denominations...
PHILIPPINES (19 million Christians). Chief troubles besetting the estimated 2,000,000 Protestants are about 17 million Roman Catholics, whose priests, says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions...
...Reporter Gill's prescription for Protestantism: "Mission must be rescued from its relegation to one special vocation and reinhabited as the basic description of all Christian life. And meanwhile, the comfortable 'missionary' illusions too many of us have been relaxing in must be ruthlessly exposed . . . We have much to be proud of, and it is a good thing we do; anything less, and there would be nothing to talk about...