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...Friday, Gillette told the CRIMSON that the Dallas club had asked the Debate Council to turn down the invitation from Bishops because "it is a small school and just not in the same league" with Southern Methodist University and the University of Dallas, the two schools which council members will debate when they go to Dallas on April 1 as guests of the Harvard Club...
...Debate Council team is scheduled to go to Texas over spring vacation as guests of the Dallas Harvard Club to debate with teams from Southern Methodist and Texas Christian Universities...
...alike, were surprisingly hopeful about bringing the merger off. Said the Rt. Rev. George Sinker, provost of the Diocese of Birmingham: "I think this is the finest opportunity we have had since we turned John Wesley out of the Church of England." The Rev. Leslie Davison, president of the Methodist Conference, went so far as to say: "Denominations have fulfilled their...
...Harold Roberts, chairman of the Methodist representatives, admitted that "radical adjustments are demanded of Methodists in the proposals we are putting forward." Perhaps the adjustments will be too radical. Four of Roberts' representatives signed a "dissentient" minority report, warning that many Methodists would be unable to accept such violations of tradition as episcopal organization. Wesley, the dissidents noted, called apostolic succession "a fable which no man ever did or could prove." Their conclusion: "To move from a Church committed to the evangelical faith into a heterogeneous body permitting, and even encouraging, unevangelical doctrines and practices, would be a step...
Died. Herbert Asbury, 71, alert recorder of the U.S.'s seamy side and impious descendant of the first Methodist bishop ordained in America, who gloriously related his own determined fall from the faith of his fathers in Up from Methodism,* went on with equal verve to chronicle underworld doings and undoings (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast), the U.S. fascination with gambling (Sucker's Progress), and a history of prohibition (The Great Illusion); after a long illness; in Manhattan...