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Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...
...position of the theologian in every day life has undergone a tremendous change in the last half-century. Even fifty years ago he was not the figure he has been. The small town preacher was no longer the one well educated man; the city pastor was not necessarily one to respect academically. But, even if his scholarly vestments had been stripped to a certain degree, he still remained a moral force. Today this aspect of his influence has also declined. The real theologian today is more a historian than a preacher, he is concerned with the sympathetic study...
Engagement Denied.By Elisabeth Morrow, kindergarten teacher, eldest daughter ofU. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, once reported engaged to Charles Augustus Lindbergh* and Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, widower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of North Arlington, N. J. (ten miles from the Morrow home...
...advocates?38-year-old, athletic Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. Calling himself a "tamed cynic," he is still known as one who aims to shock the complacent, to kinetize the nation's youth with his own high-powered enthusiasm. Son of a Missouri pastor, he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter how the Christian ethic is defined it remains true that...
Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover...