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Your article on the development of Methodist colleges and universities in America was by far the most effective presentation of the subject we have seen in brief compass. Incidentally, if there have been "meddlesome bishops" in Methodist education, they have not been encountered here. On the contrary, these enlightened leaders of the church have set an example of statesmanship for our trustees...
...College." The church's links with its schools have customarily consisted of the right to name some trustees, the obligation of supplying some funds, and some degree of Christian educational influence. Some schools have slipped their Methodist moorings: Baltimore's Goucher, Connecticut's Wesleyan, Nashville's Vanderbilt, and Southern California-often because meddlesome bishops irked trustees and professors. Some colleges were picked up from other churches, for example, Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Dickinson, which fell on hard times after being started by Presbyterians. But after 1900, the Methodists seemed to lose direction...
...sparked the renaissance is Methodism's "Mr. College"-the Rev. John Owen Gross, 66, a carpenter's son whose freewheeling presidency of Kentucky's Union College is a Methodist legend. Gross saved the penniless campus by using his spending power as county relief boss in the Depression ("We built a lot of sidewalks"). Later he remodeled Iowa's Simpson College, in 1941 became head of all church-college relations...
Vitality & Change. Methodism's greatest vitality shows up in areas of greatest change, for example in Hawaii, where it hopes soon to open an interdenominational campus as "a window on the West." Last fall alone, Methodists opened three new colleges, including two in North Carolina, which has made its racial peace and developed a strong economy. Another sign of revival this year is Alaska Methodist University (140 students)-two sleekly modern buildings nestled against the snowy Chugach Mountains on a 500-acre campus near Anchorage...
...Bible-beating schools, today's Methodist colleges pride themselves on putting education ahead of religion, energetically toss out vocational courses in favor of pure liberal arts. Students of any creed are welcome; each college has full control of curriculum, and required chapel attendance and religion courses vary widely...