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...greatest single failure of American colleges is that so many students have not found education meaningful in their own lives." With this mouthful, the president of Connecticut's small (800 men) Wesleyan University in Middletown recently tackled a national question: If college students are brighter than ever, why are they "silent" and "apathetic...
...Connecticut's Wesleyan, students braved a bitter New England night to collect $400 for a scholarship fund...
...sure I would become a clergyman"), he sailed through the College of the Pacific, the Pacific School of Religion, and the Hartford Theological Seminary. Ordained in 1932, he spent the next 16 years as pastor of four different churches, taught at the Pacific School of Religion and Nebraska Wesleyan. He was elected Bishop of the Portland (Ore.) area at 40, the youngest bishop in the history of the Methodist Church...
Today Kennedy considers himself simply a "Wesleyan," after Methodism's spellbinding, peripatetic founder, John Wesley. But, recalls Kennedy, there are some zigzags in his spiritual development. In the 19305 he went through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order...
...with Antioch) in the U.S. in production of prominent men scientists. Ohio's College of Wooster produced the famed scientist brothers Compton (Wilson, Karl, Arthur). And Lawrence College in northern Wisconsin is a hatchery of university presidents. One former teacher, Victor L. Butterfield, heads Connecticut's topnotch Wesleyan. One former president, Henry M. Wriston, later took over Brown. A successor, Nathan M. Pusey, went on to Harvard...