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...Alumni Association welcomed graduating seniors into its ranks yesterday at the Class Day ceremony in Sever Quadrangle. After the opening prayer by Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, Richard L. Bushman '55 of Salt Lake City gave the Class Oration...
...shapeless in movement. Under Director Herman Shumlin's able supervision, there are plenty of vivid snapshots and plenty of lively moments, but the play provides no sustained drama. And what does seem fictional seems all too much so: a vapid love story between Scopes and a hard-shell preacher's daughter; a Mencken who talks more like a smarty-pants cribbing from the real Mencken's prose. But if Inherit the Wind is not quite up to snuff as a play, it is often effective theater...
...were the Christians." But by the time Billy Graham had reached the last words of his "invitation," Jim Vaus had stumbled over to the prayer tent and fallen on his knees. To Reach the Unreached. Since then, Wiretapper Vaus has been Evangelist Vaus. Following the footsteps of his fundamentalist preacher father, he travels from pulpit to pulpit in a panel truck with $18,000 worth of electronic equipment. He sets it up in churches, and rivets
...audiences with his electronic demonstration-stereophonic sound effects, high-voltage cracklings through the human body, experiments with sound and light beyond human range. This makes a preacher's point: "You don't feel everything, you don't hear everything, you don't see everything-yet you say that you don't believe what you don't feel, see and hear!" His audiences are large, and his "love offerings" average more than $3,000 a month, all of which goes into his Missionary Communication Service, a nonprofit foundation to provide electronic equipment to missionaries around...
...prevailed if disgruntled scholars and disputatious monks had not begun a muttering campaign against Galileo which forced the issue prematurely. Yet Galileo was held in such esteem that when a Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty thousand brothers may and do actually commit...