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...role of religion in an undergraduate's life again became food for editorials this year when, in the Spring, the Corporation decided to put the to-be-appointed University Preacher, assisted by an Episcopalian divinity student, in charge of Phillips Brooks House, the College social service center. From the CRIMSON, this brought the belief...
...expression of their gratitude for his long years of service, his students in the Divinity School have commissioned a portrait of Sperry. A photograph of him will be presented by his friends and colleagues and will be hung in the preacher's room of Memorial Church. A gilded edition of the Revised Bible, in whose writing Sperry played a large part, will be placed in the collection of holy writings in the Chapel...
Apparently upset by the fact that the words, "Phillips Brooks House" are more likely to raise images of theatre tickets and juvenile boxing matches than of the great old Massachusetts preacher, the University has taken a second step toward giving PBH back to religion. The first step, taken several months ago, was making the Chairman of the Board of Preachers automatic Director of Brooks House, and now pending is the appointment of a divinity student as Graduate Secretary...
...from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...Negro who sometimes writes with the powerful rocking rhythms of a storefront-church meeting. Author James Baldwin's own father was a Harlem clergyman, and the church scenes in go Tell It are as compelling as anything that has turned up in a U.S. novel this year. Watch Preacher Elisha: "At one moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, sweat standing on his brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black cat in trouble in the jungle, he stiffened and trembled, and cried out. Jesus, Jesus, oh Lord Jesus! He struck...