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...room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary will have a new president in July 1945. At the Seminary's 108th commencement last week it was announced that tall, able, energetic Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, professor of systematic theology, will succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, who has been president for 19 years. Dr. Coffin will have reached 68, Union's retirement age, next June...
Pessimists about the present worth of the Church got a forthright answer last week. It came from tall, vigorous Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In a small but fact-crammed book called What IS the Church Doing? (Scribner; $1), he found the Church accomplishing great things under the Nazi heel, in missions and in church unity movements...
...Bengal rowing qualities have fallen mightily since last year, when the Tigers presented the sole threat to Harvard's Eastern supremacy. In two races so far this year they have bowed to little Rutgers and a high-stroking Navy eight. 165-pound starboard stroke Dune Pitney is again pacing the Princetonians, but he doesn't seem to have the necessary power behind him to raise the Orange and Black much above the class of Tech and Syracuse, both of which failed to come within three lengths of the flying Crimson last Saturday...
Commission members include Methodist Theologian Georgia Harkness, Union Seminary's Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Harvard's William Ernest Hocking, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, the International Missionary Council's Abbe Livingston Warnshuis, the World Council's Henry Smith Leiper, Industrialist Harold Hatch, ex-President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Secretary and spark-plug is Dr. Walter Van Kirk, of the Federal Council's Department of International Justice...