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...LANGDON...
Birth or Original Sin," says Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School. "They're discussing the existence of God. And if there's no God, you don't have to argue about any of the other doctrines." The big concern of still others is the social role of the church. More important than questioning old dogma, says the World Council of Churches' Albert van den Heuvel, is the task of creating a new Christian ethic that can adequately deal with such mammoth issues as world hunger, racial equality...
...Harvard-educated Langdon Gilkey, the son of a Baptist minister and an English teacher at Peking's Yenching University, was arrested by the Japanese and sent to a prison camp near Weihsien, in Shantung province. There he lived for 2½ years in the company of 1,500 other interned civilians, most of them British and American missionaries or traders. Out of his wartime experience, Gilkey, now a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has distilled a fascinating memoir called Shantung Compound (Harper & Row; $4.95) that is both a vivid diary of prison life...
Increased participation by Harvard alumni is healthy for Harvard and accordance with our statutory deep responsibilities for its government. Langdon P. Marvin Jr. First Marshal, Class...
...their action will have no effect on the controversial candidacy of Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41, the first man to campaign for the Board in Harvard's history. Although the names of the six new Overseers will not be announced until this afternoon, reliable sources said yesterday that Marvin's would not be among them...