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...School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy...
Died. Dr. Shailer Mathews, 78, liberal theologian, dean emeritus of the University of Chicago Divinity School; in Chicago. Dean from 1908 to 1933, he was a lifetime fighter against religious obscurantism, an influential champion of the church's practical concern with social problems. He was never ordained, explained he preferred the greater freedom of action and speech allowed a layman...
Ferdinand J. AchDorothy Stuhlberg, Lasell Oliver E. Allen Charlotte Whitman, New York William H. Appel Mary Lloyd, Boston Ryo Arai Marjorie Baldwin, Stoneleigh College Shailer Avery Elizabeth Gorman, Winchester Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil...
...Harvard men these three stand out among the great teachers of the last half century. Only the older graduates remember Professor Hill, the associate of Charles Eliot Norton, Nathaniel Shailer and their contemporaries. Dean Briggs, who died only three years ago, was known to--and loved by--the undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many...
After reiterating what TIME reported, i. e. that Chautauqua had been placed (but not "laid to rest") in friendly receivership, Press Agent King adds the following points: Chautauqua's religious department, interdenominational, is headed by Chicago University's Dean Shailer Matthews. The Chautauqua Woman's Club "presents a program of noted character. Its outstanding event for 1933 was its reception to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, when 6,000 persons were present." Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle is the "oldest book club in America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony...