Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going into "the wholesale business" in his search for social reform, modern man is forgetting the Gospel of Christ and the importance of individual man, said Brown University's President Henry M. Wriston last week at the 40th annual convocation of Yale Divinity School. "There is more preaching about the evils of capitalism, of profits, of exploitation, than of the beauty of holiness...
...Wriston did not deny the existence of society's ills. "There are many other institutions for improving the lot of mankind," he said, "and they are valuable- the Red Cross, hospitals, labor unions and universities, the state and a host of others." On the other hand, there are two modern institutions that should be exclusively concerned with the needs of the individual: the church and the liberal arts college. It is their job, he argued, to improve the individual-the basic unit out of which all social institutions, good & bad, are made...
...That was the core of Jesus' teaching," said Dr. Wriston, and there was just as much moral pressure on Christ as on the modern preacher to concentrate on social and political reforms. The Jews of the New Testament were intensely political, white-hot nationalists. Under occupation by a foreign power and burning for liberation from Rome, they looked for a leader to bring them salvation in practical, tangible terms...
...Jesus offered His listeners neither any political advice nor any social advice for the reorganization of society as such. Said Wriston: "In His day there were all the social inequalities and inequities of our day-and others besides. The reason He did not preach about social problems was that He was not fundamentally concerned about social machinery, but with the central meaning of life ... He did not preach the abolition of castes, but He moved across these sharply drawn lines as though they were not there; to Jesus the individual was everything, his social status of no account whatever...
...Arts degree. He had to decline for lack of time to make the trip to Providence for the university convocation. But one day last month, when Alumnus Aiso and some 90 other old Browns turned up for a dinner at Los Angeles' University Club, Brown President Henry Wriston called a special convocation on the spot. Said Wriston: "The mountain has come to Mohamed." He awarded Aiso his honorary degree: for his war record, his example in race relations, his skill at the law. Said 40-year-old Johnny Aiso: "It is one more little action which helps us feel...