Word: schools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had fights with some of his non-Abolitionist parishioners. In his school days "Pip" was a fun-loving, feverish, arrogant character with a temper and a direct, wide-open gaze. He and Joe Wheeler, later a Confederate cavalry leader, risked their necks and expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker...
...Divinity School students are receiving increasing instruction in the social sciences and "clinical" training in institutions, Dean Sperry stated in his annual report, issued today...
Dean Sperry discussed the nonsectarian character of the Divinity School, raising the question whether an independent school of this sort "can effectively serve the formally organized denominations into which American Protestantism is divided...
...reported that out of 80 students registered at the Divinity School last year, more than 80 per cent were pledged to enter the ministry, and the remaining 20 per cent are preparing for work on Divinity School faculties...
...Harvard Divinity School, he said, does not accept for registration any applicant planning to enter college teaching, even in the field of religion. The eighty students last year represented thirteen different church denominations, he said...