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Refreshing Pause. Atwood credits Emory with "the greatest potential of any private university in the country." New presidents always talk that way, but Emory has plenty of promise. Named for an early Methodist bishop, it was horn a country college in Oxford, Ga., had a heady rebirth in 1915 after the Methodist Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed...
President Pusey's appointment of Samuel H. Miller, professor of Pastoral Theology and a Baptist minister of national reputation, as dean in 1959 recognized the desirability of this effort. The seven years which preceded Dean Miller's appointment had witnessed the effective rebirth of the Divinity School...
...Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land...
...Rebirth from Despair...
Monteverdi, he stated, did bring about a rebirth of music drama, but gave it a very new form. The Italian did not use tragedy as a special category of drama, "a perfection of its own," but rather made it a human condition which the opera sought to communicate. The tragic element in his works was only "a momentary constellation and not of lasting significance, its roots are in human nature and the real and not in fate or the propitious shape of art." Schrade lays great emphasis on the role of fate in tragedy; he thus set Monteverdi...