Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alinsky also complained of the business community's failure, and outright refusal, to help alleviate poverty among urban Negroes...
...Urban problems, led by John G. Wofford '57, a fellow of the Institute...
Time was when a young clergyman could expect his first pulpit to be a rural clapboard church whose faithful accorded him and his preaching unquestioning respect. Today, he is more apt to find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
...Urban Oversight. Despite the mounting problems of city congregations, the author adds, seminaries are in many ways still helping students prepare "for a ministry to whatever is left of small town society." Although today's sophisticated laymen expect something more from their pastors than dogmatic, take-it-or-leave-it preaching, Feilding says that "the teaching method honored in the school was the lecture, so the graduate not unnaturally sets out upon his ministry lecturing people...
...million is being sought for two new buildings primarily to provide more space for the library, additional classrooms, lecture rooms of smaller size, and more offices, both for the Faculty and for activities of administration. The other goals sought are $4 million for new chairs in criminal law and urban legal studies; $4 million for additional financial aid to students; and $1 million for increased endowment for the library. Professor Austin Scott has accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of this campaign. The National Chairman and effective leader of the strong committee, which has now been organized to conduct the drive...