Word: samuel
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Tall, grey Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, 61, Harvard Divinity's former professor of pastoral theology and the first Baptist to be dean of the 149-year-old seminary, told Princeton's fledgling ministers that if religion is to have any real place in the modern world, it will have to "undergo a radical revolution." In fact, he warned, "the critical point of no return may have been passed." The churches are addressing themselves in a dead language to situations and issues that no longer exist. "The ancient dogmas no longer dominate the imagination; the shape of life...
Professor Samuel Beer considers that the six term-time paper assignments in Social Sciences 2 are "the most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English literature, is another who gives frequent...
...rich, generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public Library...
...Died. Samuel Briskin, 70, strongwilled, Russian-born philanthropist who recovered from a sinus condition that nearly killed him, founded the Revere Camera Co. (home movie cameras and projectors) in 1937, was board chairman until 1960; of cancer; in Chicago...
Lowell House: A. Michael Washburn, David S. Bogen, Warren P. Miller, William H. Burns, William L. Zentgraf, James S. Johns, Allan E. Mack, Thomas W. Maher, Samuel Otis...