Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of 275 nominees, Christ-Janer represents something of a break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...
...Totowa Presbyterian Church Paterson...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
...Florida Presbyterian has done away with such college conventional musts as compulsory class attendance and grading. Instead, whenever students feel ready, they take two weeks of grueling comprehensives required for graduation. For guidance purposes only, they are given H for honors, S for satisfactory, U for unsatisfactory...
Visser 't Hooft delivered his valedictory as he prepared to turn over the duties and prerogatives of his office to the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, 60, the strong-willed U.S. Presbyterian who has been preparing for his new job by studying French at the University of Grenoble. Visser 't Hooft, 66, will remain as a consultant, writing his memoirs on the unity movement, which he says he will "try to make a little more readable than most of the literature on the subject...