Word: presbyterians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some people say it's like a dream-it can't be happening here," mused Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr., president of the Greater Little Rock Ministerial Association, as he contemplated the fate that had befallen his city. "But I haven't felt like that. This is real...
...Inevitable Governor. It was small wonder that many of the ordinary citizens of Little Rock thought of their situation as a dream-a nightmare-in which they had played no part. But Presbyterian Ogden pointed up the meaning for ordinary citizens and would-be extremists alike. "This had to happen someplace in the South," said he. "It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard...
...Darkest Hour." Father Halton first ruffled the campus of Presbyterian-founded Princeton (motto: "Under God she flourishes") in 1954, with a sharp-tongued attack on the fitness of famed Philosopher Dr. Walter T. Stace to teach a freshman class in his subject, since he once admitted: "I believe in no religion at all." Father Halton then charged that Princeton's department of religion was incompetent to instruct students in Roman Catholicism because not one member was as well trained in the subject as "an eighth-grader in St. Paul's" (a local Catholic school...
Fashions in Christianity. Each of the six is true to its Christian origins in its fashion, but the fashions vary widely from campus to campus. Methodist Ohio Wesleyan and Presbyterian Wooster still have formal ties to their mother churches, still make chapel attendance compulsory. At Wooster, which annually sends 10% to 15% of its graduates into the ministry, an aide to President Howard F. Lowry explains: "Christianity is not something we just talk about; it's something we live here. You simply do not have a liberal education when you divorce learning from man's deepest inquiry...
...girls by the busload for its dances, but half the student body at Baptist Denison (1,300) and Ohio Wesleyan (2,000) is female. Wooster has no national fraternities, but Kenyon has eight, and 90% of the student body at Denison belong to fraternities or sororities. At Wooster the Presbyterian Church controls the administration; at Oberlin (no church affiliation) the faculty is the big wheel on campus, even sets salaries (top for a full professor: $11,000, highest among the six schools...