Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lerner, Magr. Fulton J. Sheen, John Crowe Ransom, Representative Christian A. Herter '15 (R-Mass.), and more than 25 other well known men in the fields of politics, religion, literature, and economies will speak at this year's Summer School forums, William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer Schol, announced last night...
John A. Clardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Stephen Spender, John Crowe Ransom, and Randall Jarrell will lecture later on "The Defense of Poetry." "The Near East" and "Science in General Education" are other topies which will be covered during the summer period...
...Ransom became pastor of the Institutional A.M.E. Church on Chicago's South Side. He was shocked by the policy rackets in the big city: "Even the church members were using my Sunday texts as guides for selecting numbers to be played during the week." Determined to stop it, he conducted his own investigation, then announced a series of sermons which would reveal "the so-called respectable citizens who were backing this underworld industry." His office was promptly dynamited, says Reverdy Ransom, but he went right ahead with his campaign: "I delivered my sermons with a loaded revolver always within...
Something Doing. Ransom came to Bethel Church in New York's Harlem in 1907, and shocked fellow ministers by opening a mission in a store-front "flanked on one side by a notorious gambling joint and on the other by one of the biggest sporting houses in New York. I'm told it housed as many as 60 girls." He came to be a respected friend to both girls and gamblers; sometimes dead-broke streetwalkers "timidly would . . . ask: 'Will you lend me a dollar, Reverend?' And I always would." Once, he remembers, a prostitute...
...Bishop Ransom's appraisal of his own busy life is tempered with Christian humility. "I cannot say that I have always been a servant of exceptional faithfulness," he writes, "nor can I say that in my role of bishop my decisions have always been unquestionably right. I may perhaps have made some hearts richer, some minds clearer, and inspired some to more noble prompting, and if so, I am indeed happy...