Word: vanderbilt
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...Vanderbilt University's new $1,300,000 divinity school last week marched Dean J. Robert Nelson on a grim mission of conscience. He strode across the Nashville campus and handed Chancellor Harvie Branscomb a terse letter of resignation. By week's end ten other divinity-school faculty members followed Nelson, 17 students quit, and three recent graduates returned their diplomas. It was the worst ruckus in Vanderbilt's 87-year history...
...minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
Ironically, Vanderbilt is one of the South's most integrated campuses. A Southern liberal, Chancellor Branscomb persuaded his conservative board of trust to admit Negroes in 1953, and he is personally sympathetic to the sit-in strikers' goals. But "civil disobedience'' is something else again. Branscomb firmly believes that whites and Negroes must equally obey the law-or face race riots. And at the height of the sit-in tension, Lawson told city officials: "The law has been a gimmick to manipulate the Negro...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...
...Only a Vanderbilt. Lapidus graduated from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1927, began his career as the shoe-store Frank Lloyd Wright by pioneering in store-front design that turned drab show windows into eye-catching display cases. But his lavish future was foreshadowed when a gold, walnut and marble bathroom that he designed for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt caused her husband to complain: "I'm only a Vanderbilt, not a Rockefeller!" By 1943 the fun had gone out of store design, and Lapidus branched into architecture on his own. For several years he worked mainly...