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...Methodist institution, opened in 1914 on Washington's northwest side, American University has ever since been trying to live up to its imposing name. To most Washingtonians it is merely a trim collection of white buildings. Students of the social sciences know and respect its School of Public Affairs and its earnest Graduate School. To diplomatic Washington, however, American University is notable as the school where Ellery Cory Stowell teaches international...
Last year three important U. S. churches, the Methodist, Evangelical & Reformed and Disciples of Christ, disowned the commission which appoints chaplains. Many a U. S. churchman would strip the chaplain of his rank and uniform. Of this the Association meeting in Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless...
Full of zeal and optimism, in San Francisco ten years ago Methodists of four of the city's biggest churches-Central, California Street, Wesley, Howard Street-sold their properties, pooled $800,000 to form a superchurch which they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage...
Installed in its fine quarters. Temple Church prospered spiritually, but William Taylor Hotel moved into the red, remained there. For a time the Methodists paid interest charges totaling, $135.000 from their own pockets, then let a $500,000 debt accumulate. A bondholders' protective committee foreclosed, bought in the property last November for $750,000. The Methodists, their investment lost for good, were invited to move out of the hotel, their quarters to be used for more lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple...
Light brown and neat as a pin, President-elect Clement is a lifetime Negro educator. He started as a professor, later became dean, at small Methodist Livingston College in Salisbury, N. C., where his late father George C. was Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among...