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...women doctors could probably qualify for service, most of them are content to work at home. What gets their dander up is to see an outstanding woman specialist hampered on account of her sex. Such a physician is Dr. Alice McNeal, anesthetist of Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago. The operating team to which she belongs went to General Hospital Unit 13 at Camp Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. Forty Chicago doctors went, but Dr. McNeal was left behind...
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...sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...
Soon a Fundamentalist Presbyterian group in Philadelphia smelled heresy in Fosdick's sermons, sent word to the New York brethren to cast out the interloper. The battle was noisy. The Presbyterian General Assembly finally suggested a way out: Fosdick might become a Presbyterian. Harry Fosdick refused; he said it would be too much like making the ministry a denominationally "closed shop." His farewell sermon packed the First Church. The closing hymn was "God be with you Till We Meet Again." He had to shake hands for an hour afterwards...
...general school work in preparation for the Ministry was had at the Presbyterian College of South Carolina where he received his A.B. in '26 followed by his work at the Columbia Theological Seminary culminating with the B.D. degree...