Word: fosdick
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Sirs: "Pop" Frank S. Fosdick benign, sage, well-loved father of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-"Timalysed" in your issue of Oct. 6, was for years (28) principal of Hasten Park High School {Continued on p. 12) in Buffalo. He showed many an adolescent striveling the way to learn, to live, to attain. . . . Never was "Pop" Fosdick, Superintendent of the Buffalo Schools, as you state erroneously on p. 71. N. B. I believe his father held the office of Superintendent of Schools for a time...
Masten Park is now the Fosdick-Masten High School of Buffalo in memory of this remarkable father at whose feet thousands of youngsters sat, inspired, as now do thousands at the feet of his remarkable...
TIME erred. Dr. Fosdick's father's father was onetime Superintendent of Schools in Buffalo...
Fourth Crisis. In 1924, Dr. Fosdick had been for some years a professor at Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Terrified by the advance of "Liberalism," conservative Presbyterians led by William Jennings Bryan, et al. styled themselves Fundamentalists and launched an attack to drive from the church all who did not subscribe literally to a few "fundamentals" such as Virgin Birth of Christ. Astute, they concentrated on Dr. Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were...
...months ago, Dr. Fosdick became for a moment autobiographical, reminisced of his youth: "We roamed the woods, fished the streams, built our shanties by the brookside. . . ." Those, it might be said, were the old days when Faith was simple, when, despite the fast inrush of science and technology, the Church was a power in society. Today that power is everywhere threatened-not by persecution, but by indifference. In the most unchurched of educated communities in an increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence...