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...rigidly high standards, partly from the fact that few men alive can match Van Dusen's diverse ecclesiastical talents. A superb administrator, he has seen Union's faculty change from a sometimes tempestuous aggregation of individual stars (including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bible Scholar James Moffatt) to what he calls "a constellation of scholars in intimate fellowship." During Van Dusen's presidency, Union's enrollment doubled (to 640), its endowment grew by $10 million, and bright new scholars inaugurated lively departments dealing with psychiatry and religion and religious drama...
...Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception at the Chronicle only three days later. Boob Audience. Standout among the Chronicle's columnists is Veteran Herb Caen, 47, whose pieces in praise...
...needed. And, since the Church itself was as yet unwilling to undertake the enterprise, many individual churchmen in the tradition of Erasmus did as best they could by themselves. In 1902, R. F. Weymouth brought out his The New Testament in Modern Speech; and in 1913 came James Moffatt's The New Testament: a New Translation. More recently Msgr. Ronald Knox--in 1945--and Dr. J. B. Phillips--in 1947--have published servicable and entirely adequate individual translations...
...Such as Britain's Revised Version (1885), the U.S. Revised Standard Version (1952), and one-man translation of the New Testament by James Moffatt (1913), Edgar J. Goodspeed (1923), Msgr. Ronald Knox (1944) and John B. Phillips...
...Moffatt, who had done extensive travelling in Canada, planned a route from Lake Athabaska down the Dubawnt River to Baker Lake that had last been travelled by James B. Tyrell in 1898, except possibly for unknown trappers and Eskimoes...