Word: wheaton
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Photographers from all major networks will film the event which will Young Republicans from 15 neighboring colleges. Schools expected to attend are Boston University, Boston College, Newton College, Radcliffe, Holy Cross, University of Massachusetts, Smith, M.I.T., Lesley, Wheaton, , and Amherst...
...Walter A. Baker 3L, president of the Law School Young Republicans, are at present staging a series of with Gary M. Little '61, HYDC president, and Gregory M. Harvey 2L, of the Law School Democratic . The four have already appeared Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Simmons plan future trips to Wheaton, Brooks, , and Smith...
...Wheaton's religious conservatism is actually more of a drawing card than a drawback to scientists, says Dr. Stanley Parmerter, 39, a Free Methodist, associate professor of chemistry and chairman of the division of science. "Scientists who are also conservative Protestants are attracted to a program like ours, where they can participate as confirmed Christians," he explains. "Our scientists here appreciate the limitations of science. We don't look for God through a microscope...
More Than Nails. Wheaton's fourth president, 59-year-old Dr. Victor Raymond Edman (a minister in the Swedish Mission Covenant Group), sees the Bible and science as two separate systems of knowledge. "Jesus doesn't choose to speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could, but he doesn't. Science helps us understand a great deal about the universe, but not about the creator of the universe and his personality." How about the theory of evolution? Says Dr. Russell Mixter of the Plymouth Brethren, zoology professor and chairman of the biological sciences department...
...Wheaton students, predominantly Baptist (702) and Presbyterian (211), are fervent hymn singers and zealous doers of good works in nearby Chicago's hospitals and slums, but the lipsticked coeds and moccasined young men look as trim and handsome as those on any U.S. campus. The restrictions of Wheaton life seem to be no hardship; no more than five or ten students a year are asked to leave for breaking their pledge not to dance, drink, smoke, play cards or go to the movies...