Word: portlanders
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Brown studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, spent twelve years as a pastor in Ripon, Wis., Oak Park, Ill., and Portland, Ore., before his election in 1895 as administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. "A divided church cannot save the world," Brown said, and with that in mind he helped organize one of the landmark events of 20th century Christian history: the Ecumenical Missionary Conference of 1900, which took the first major step toward ending the wasteful competition of church missions...
...would explain their reluctance to accept the printers' package, and by revealing at the negotiation table a stubbornness to match the printers' intransigence. Nor have the newspapers exhibited much will to meet their keystone responsibility to stay in print somehow-even by makeshift-which is just what Portland's two daily newspapers did three years ago. during a mass walkout that is still in effect. For his part, Bert Powers could have kept his men working at their jobs while he bargained with men whom only his own blindness prevents him from recognizing as reasonable...
Communist John Reed and repeated the legend once more. "Here," he said, "is the founder of one of your colleges." John Reed, a rich boy from Portland, had nothing to do with Reed College. He went to Harvard and loved it. William...
Most Reed students come from California, followed by Oregon, Washington and New York. The universal lure is Reed's blend of social and academic freedom. "Dad dreamed of Caltech," says one boy from Los Angeles. "I didn't want to leave out the humanities, and Portland is a convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland...
Fighting Injustis. In conservative Portland, Reed was suspect from the day President Foster descended on it with his pacifism, social conscience and simplified spelling (dout, injustis). His students were soon questioning everything from the effect of vaudeville on children to anti-German hysteria in World War I. Reed is still that way. Portland cops once jailed a Reed student for reading Shelley by moonlight on campus; next night 20 Reed students did the same on a Portland street corner. Hardly a strike goes by in Portland without some Reed student getting involved and even arrested...