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The amorphous procession of academics, divines, politicians, and insundary associates of the University will bring three centuries of tradition with it during the march into today's Commencement exercises. In its distinctly Harvard spirit if not in specific forms, the 312th Commencement will be very much like the first.
Yale's English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable...
In fact, the College, for all the reverence attached to its name has never had a very clear notion of what it was about, except at the very beginning. In those days, everyone knew that the business of any college was to rear Puritan divines. This purposeful age vanished, however...
Pardon for All. Although the Age of Reason thus becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is...
The film gives nothing of the doubts or, for that matter, the certainties that must torture a man obsessed by God. Dillman rolls his eyes upward now and then in the manner of cinema divines and photographers' models in spaghetti ads, but otherwise he shows no evidence of sainthood...