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...amazed and dismayed that the recent article in TIME on the Dallas News could suggest or even imply a cleavage between this distinguished daily and Southern Methodist University. It was 50 years ago this month that a charter for Southern Methodist University was drawn to activate the hope for a strong regional university in Dallas. Ever since that time, the already mature Dallas News has helped to nurture this ambitious dream...
WILLIS M. TATE President Southern Methodist University Dallas...
Portuguese officials tried to pin the blame for the blacks' terrorism on U.S. missionaries. According to Methodist Mission headquarters in New York, eight African Methodist pastors have been killed, either shot down by armed white civilians or executed by soldiers after hurried trials. A pastoral letter issued last week by five prominent white Roman Catholic churchmen in Angola, four bishops and one archbishop, denounced terrorism but called for "formation of a more perfect social situation, more supported by justice and charity...
...time, the church's fault is not, as some would say, that she speaks too seldom. Rather, she speaks too often and on too many subjects." This was the unlikely counsel of outspoken Manhattan Methodist Ralph W. Sockman, minister since 1936 to a congregation now numbering some 500,000 on NBC's Radio Pulpit. "Churchmen," his sermon continued, "act as though they feel they have to pontificate on any problem and, having spoken, tend to assume that there is little more to be said. This is boorish behavior as well as bad theology. It leaves little alternative...
Denver University is a private institution founded in 1864 as a Methodist seminary. It has an enrollment of 4200, three-fifths of which are men. The University has three undergraduate programs--in the Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Business Administration--and graduate programs incuding a law school. Located "at the foot of the Rockies," the University boasts of students from all 50 states and from over 50 foreign countries, and of its "over 140 organizations for students" including 14 fraternities and seven sororities. Sixty percent of the student body is not from Colorado...