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...Boost. Washington and Lee started out in 1749 as Augusta Academy, when early settlers of the region decided to plant Scottish-Presbyterian learning in the Valley of Virginia. In 1798, the year before he died, George Washington handed the school its first big boost: $50,000 worth of canal stock, that had originally been the gift to Washington of the Virginia Legislature. The school gratefully changed its name to Washington Academy, later to Washington College...
...first Protestant missionaries in Korea was an Underwood-Presbyterian Horace Grant Underwood, of the typewriter family. He went out to the Orient in 1885, married a medical missionary who became royal physician to Korea's Queen Min. In his buttoned-up black coat and white tie, doughty Dr. Underwood strode coolly through cholera epidemics and equally formidable Korean political squabbles. He raised his son, Horace Horton Underwood, to labor in the same vineyard...
...educated. When the missionaries came, Korea was almost completely illiterate; today the literacy rate is about 60%. Patriarch Underwood founded Chosen Christian College in Seoul. Later it was headed by son Horace, who worked in Korea for 32 years before he found time to be ordained in the Presbyterian ministry. Ordained with him (TIME, March 13, 1944) were his twin sons, John (now in Korea) and James (now in the U.S.). Another son is teaching at Korea's Chosen Christian College, a fourth is at New York's Hamilton College...
Dissonance. In Kirkwood, Mo., the St. Louis Police Quartet finished up their recital at the First Presbyterian Church, found a parking ticket on their...
...most of his life, Donald Douds has been within earshot of the word of God. Born in Chautauqua, N.Y., the son of a Presbyterian minister, he went to Presbyterian-supported Wooster College in Ohio, then to Union Theological Seminary. In his spare time at the seminary, he worked on the staff of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Manhattan's Riverside Church. He was finally ordained in the Congregational Church in Florida. His first parish was Miami Shores, and he started work there the day after his wedding...