Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wesley Organized . . ." In 1944, Oxnam was U.S. Protestantism's man of the year. He was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches and also became bishop of the New York area, Methodism's most important diocese, where he succeeded Bishop Francis J. McConnell, another famed liberal. He has carried on McConnell's work. At the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, for example, he found no racial discrimination against patients but a rule excluding colored candidates from nursing school. After months of firm pressure from Oxnam, the hospital board repealed the rule...
...Before Amsterdam, cooperating between the churches was occasional. From Amsterdam onwards, it will be continuous. The difference is that between the traveling lecturer who may inspire and the school which educates. Whitfield preached and passed; Wesley organized and abides...
Jubilee stay-at-homes can still get in a little dancing tonight at 8:30 o'clock, when the Wesley Foundation of the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church holds its May Day Dance. The church is on Massachusetts Avenue at the first stop-light north of the Square...
Blood & Baldness. Blood was also on the mind of Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He measured the blood volume of 53 medical students (by injecting dye into their veins) and compared it with their general body-build. The plump, rounded subjects (endomorphs) and the slender, delicate ones (ectomorphs) had less blood compared to weight than the mesomorphs, or husky, athletic types. Conclusion: if you have lots of muscle, you probably have lots of blood...
Sergo Koussevitsky did a masterful job with his orchestra and chorus yesterday, and the soloists, Carol Brice, David Lloyd (tenor), James Pease (baritone), and Wesley Addy (speaker) were better than good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...