Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REV.) JOHN S. HIGGINS Bishop of Rhode Island Providence...
...Louis had bought up the campus of the defunct Chillicothe Business College and was about to open a full-fledged university, the whole town of Chillicothe. Mo. (pop. 9,850) was delighted at the thought of the prestige it would bring. The university's founder-president, the Rev. Clyde Belin. B.B.A.. Th.B.. Th.M., Th.D.. Ph.D., was a scholarly, dedicated-looking gentleman. His plans for setting up a liberal arts college, a Bible college, a college of engineering, and schools of home economics, business, agriculture, journalism and law were certainly impressive, and so was his talk...
True enough, Belin had been a preacher of sorts. For a while he was associated with the St. Louis Revival Center, which featured many evangelists, including the Rev. Louisa Copeland, who would tell audiences how God had filled her teeth with gold. Then Belin got "a call to start a university," opened a school in St. Louis, ran it until 1956, when "the Lord provided another campus in Chillicothe, Mo." For the students who came to that campus, the experience was a disaster...
...Belin University. After that, he planned to embark on another scheme-a retirement village for elderly folks, "especially those who have devoted their lives to God's work." But last week the angered and disillusioned people of Chillicothe hoped that they would soon see the last of the Rev. Dr. Clyde Belin...
...will be graduates of private preparatory schools. The Committee on Admissions will deny any bias. They will announce, "We have nothing against wonks, other things being equal." An enraged Joseph Kennedy (John's father) will confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those...