Word: seminarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn Charter one day to recruit delegates to a youth conference. When he asked for volunteers, he was greeted by stony silence; when he asked if anyone would like to hear more about the conference before making up his mind, the silence became even stonier. Desperately, the seminarian asked if any boy would agree to receive promotional literature just in case someone might develop an interest, and at this point Class President Van Dusen spoke up. The result was that when Van Dusen turned up at Princeton the next year, the seminarian promptly recognized him and persuaded him to serve...
Senora de Mordo, enraged to tears, screamed at the students: "You savages! Savages! You are a disgrace!" Replied a teen-age seminarian:'You are the savage, and we are merely evangelizing you." A few days later, the exhibit was closed by government order;" the works of art were recrated and shipped back to where they came from. Last week, the show's organizers sadly announced that there would be no "Second International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" next year...
...prime discovery of this summer's batch of seminarian-workers is the language barrier between pulpit...
...union man looked blank. The seminarian innocently repeated his question in a somewhat louder voice. The man scratched his head. Then Dean Scott diplomatically asked the labor leader whether he understood the question. "Damned if I do," he replied...
...Seminarian Stuart McLean of Yale Divinity School, who with Ed Bland of Princeton Theological Seminary worked in a steel plant, concluded that most of the men he met were far from understanding even such key words as "sin," "grace" and "redemption"-though he heard ministers glibly using the words to them as if they...