Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illness has forced Reinhold Niebuhr to cancel his scheduled lecture series and Memorial Church sermon here this spring, the Appleton Club announced yesterday. The Club, which was to have sponsored Niebuhr's talks here on March 16, 17, and 18, revealed yesterday that it does not intend to substitute another lecturer...
...Niebuhr is now in a New York hospital, where he will remain for some time. His condition is not serious...
...help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope: to make the school a stronghold of ecumenical Christian education among the clergy, a means for correcting what President Conant's committee called "religious illiteracy" among undergraduates...
...usual courses in "The Care and Mending of Children's Underwear" and "How a City Man Can Succeed in Farming." But students have also been able to take philosophy under John Dewey, anthropology under Ruth Benedict, literature under John Erskine, law under Harold Medina, theology under Reinhold Niebuhr. Extension has been a bargain counter loaded with first-rate goods. Over the years, thousands of adults-from Critic Lionel Trilling to Baseballer Lou Gehrig -have snapped up its wares...
...Niebuhr criticized the situation in the last war when our soldiers did not know what they were fighting for other than "mother's home cooking...