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...founding fathers of U.S. higher education were clergymen of various faiths, and church-related colleges once reigned in the land. A secular age changed all that; the rise of state universities clinched it; the fate of many church-related colleges is now dark. But the Methodist Church, parent of more Protestant colleges than any other church, is blithely looking forward to a new golden era "in the great enterprise of serving Jesus Christ as Lord of the mind...
...past four years, after two decades of standing still, Methodist educators have raised $80 million, put up 300 new college buildings, and opened five new campuses from North Carolina to Alaska. The empire under varying degrees of Methodist control has 205,500 students in 136 schools, including 77 colleges, 21 junior colleges, 12 seminaries and 8 universities (American, Boston, Denver, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Syracuse...
...forbade recesses, ignored weekends, decreed a harsh round of Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and math, interrupted only by prayers. Said he: "Those who play when they are young will play when they are old." Wesley's passion for education infected his U.S. disciples when they organized the Methodist Church in 1784. He was shocked at their first effort, Maryland's Cokesbury College, founded by Bishops Coke and Asbury. "I study to be little, you study to be great," he wrote. "I found a school, you a college-nay, and call it after your own names...
Preaching & Planting. By 1796, Cokesbury had twice gone up in flames. Despite this omen, U.S. Methodists went on building colleges. The work was done by tempestuous circuit riders, such as the legendary Peter Cartwright, who wrestled the devil up and down the Ohio Valley (his biographer says he won). Though Wesley exhorted his circuit riders to "preach expressly on education," learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion...
...think folks are coming round," said Premed Student Holmes. Journalism Student Hunter, the mob's No. 1 target, was delighted. The Roman Catholic daughter of a Methodist U.S. Army chaplain, she is a considerably more sophisticated girl than the average Georgia coed. Her reaction to last week's occasional insults: "I know that a lot of them are saying things...