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...morning service in Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, second-year Student Harold M. Davis, 27, strode to the pulpit. His tie, as bright and many-colored as Joseph's coat, was the one vivid touch in the plain, crowded Victorian chapel. From Acts he read three short passages about Barnabas, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost," under whose teaching "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch...
Balancing Income. America's postwar seminary students are a mature and serious lot. They are also numerous: U.S. Protestant seminarians rose from 13,000 in 1938 to 24,000 in 1947, Roman Catholics from 16,000 to 23,000, and Jews from 900 to 2,000. At McCormick, which is Presbyterian, their average age is 28. Ten years...
More than a third of the Protestants and about a tenth of the Catholics and Jews (who usually start seminary training at an earlier age) are war veterans; most of the Protestants are married. Few are free from financial strain. Although nearly all the students at McCormick have a part-time preaching assignment, or work at other outside jobs, most of their wives also work...
Despite these worldly cares, which the apostles had in their time too, the postwar seminarians are a quality lot. Said McCormick Vice President Kenneth G. Neigh: "The level is far higher than when I graduated here in 1936." Last week, in other Chicago seminaries, officials agreed with Neigh. The men's wartime experience has much to do with this, but even more important is the growing conviction among Protestant seminarians that religion goes far beyond mere social service...
...McCormick, Gilbert, and Chuck Harwood ran a close race for the positions...