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...born in turn-of-the-century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
...enemies of the Gospel," and that the Jews had suffered through history under a curse because their ancestors had murdered Jesus. Most of such obvious examples of church baiting have now been blue-penciled away, often because they were singled out and criticized by Dr. Bernhard Olson, a Methodist who teaches at Union Theological Seminary. In a new book, Faith and Prejudice (Yale; $7.50), Olson shows how religious-text writers have often carried teaching beyond the statement of the essential doctrines into the terrain of slurs that offend other faiths...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...
Smaller companies now attract a respectable 15% of the graduates of Harvard Business School, a traditional training ground for big business, and 40% of those from Southern Methodist. A recent poll showed that 65% of the students at Stanford Business School preferred to enter smaller businesses. Says Stanford Business Dean Ernest C. Arbuckle: "There has been a great growth of interest in the smaller companies in the past five years...
When the Debate Council checked with the Dallas club three weeks ago about the invitation from Bishop, it received word through Howard F. Gillette '35, general secretary of alumni, that "all things considered" it would be better if the Debate Council stuck to its scheduled debates with Southern Methodist University and the University of Dallas, and did not debate Bishop...