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...Vanderbilt University's new $1,300,000 divinity school last week marched Dean J. Robert Nelson on a grim mission of conscience. He strode across the Nashville campus and handed Chancellor Harvie Branscomb a terse letter of resignation. By week's end ten other divinity-school faculty members followed Nelson, 17 students quit, and three recent graduates returned their diplomas. It was the worst ruckus in Vanderbilt's 87-year history...
...minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
Ironically, Vanderbilt is one of the South's most integrated campuses. A Southern liberal, Chancellor Branscomb persuaded his conservative board of trust to admit Negroes in 1953, and he is personally sympathetic to the sit-in strikers' goals. But "civil disobedience'' is something else again. Branscomb firmly believes that whites and Negroes must equally obey the law-or face race riots. And at the height of the sit-in tension, Lawson told city officials: "The law has been a gimmick to manipulate the Negro...
...told Branscomb: "When the Christian considers the concept of civil disobedience as an aspect of nonviolence, it is only within the context of a law or a law-enforcement agency which in reality has ceased to be the law." Unable to accept this reasoning. Branscomb asked Lawson to leave Vanderbilt. He refused-and Branscomb expelled...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...