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Charles Van Doren is appointed Preacher to the University. To quell the angry shouting of a hastily formed "Divinitas" group of alumni, Van Doren issues a statement explaining that he had "peered over the brink of nothingness" and had "seen God." President Pusey terms the appointment, "the logical extreme of a policy of deconversion...
...years, some of Teviston's leaders dreamed of digging a deep well and creating a water district of their own, but cash and hope were scarce. Then, five years ago, Field Hand James Morning, Farmer John Williams and Missionary Baptist Preacher Robert Daniels began talking up the idea. They got Bard McAllister, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee, to come over from Visalia to help. For four years McAllister worked and argued with the people, tried to explain how a community effort could bring running water into their homes...
Author Dunham writes movingly but without bitterness about the struggle of the children to break free of the father, and about the genteel shabbiness of lower-middle-class Negro life. A set piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine...
George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Preacher to the University--"...a university is for understanding. Our concern (in the classroom) is not to say whether you should believe or not believe...
...fall of 1954, when Buttrick's appointment was announced, the post of University preacher had been vacant for one and a half years. Despite speculation during the previous spring that the new head of memorial Church would have no teaching duties, Buttrick also became an active professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...