Word: serious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestantism's excessive fragmentation, says Dr. Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized...
...Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like to ask that the folks who came ... to hear the singers wait a few minutes, or there will be no more audience at this show...
...recurrent Crimson injuries are all the more serious because Harvard lacks depth. Coach Valpey simply does not have enough good football players to use a two platoon system. Yale does. The two Blue elevens may not be excellent teams, but at least there are two of them...
Lack of parks, the board pointed out, has become a serious problem in Cambridge...
...traveling squad is complete except for Peto Coyne, who is remaining home because of serious illness in his family. Another unusual factor is that Captain Hugh Edmonds and first-string end Peirce Leavitt, of the jayvees, will not be able to play in their game today, since both are important men in tomorrow's varsity lineups. Edmonds is now second-string varsity quarterback, while Leavitt will probably get the starting assignment at defensive right...