Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jukebox," somebody yelled, and while the music blared, 1 ,000 chanting students of Wake Forest College twisted, frugged and hully-gullied under the North Carolina sky. The scene looked like football victory celebration; actually it was bitter defiance of church authority. The Baptist State Convention, which controls Wake Forest, had just voted down a proposal to give the school greater freedom from church control. The chants were angry cries of "To hell with the Baptists," and the twisting flouted a ban on dancing as "demoralizing...
...most of its 130-year history, Wake Forest was known as "North Carolina's best high school." Since a scholarly Baptist theologian named Harold Wayland Tribble became president in 1950, the college has advanced to become a reputable small (2,900 students) liberal arts school. It offers degrees in law and medicine, gives M.A.'s in seven fields. Though all students must attend twice-weekly chapel programs and take two semesters of religion, the curriculum, the student body and the faculty are not narrowly sectarian. Fewer than half of the undergraduates and only three-fifths of the teachers...
Tribble badly wants to transform Wake Forest into a truly academic university, a goal that the fundamentalist preachers who dominate the state convention bitterly oppose. They want the school to train future leaders of the church. "We're not in education for education's sake," protested the Rev. Tom Freeman...
...that's where his egotism came out." When Truman and MacArthur met at Wake Island, "some of the boys said he didn't even salute me," Harry went on. "I didn't give a damn...
...Wake up the echoes cheering her name...