Roland Bainton Yale University

 Roland Bainton was the star of the show.

Once upon a time, Yale Divinity - and many history students - packed the rooms just to hear Roland Bainton speak. The school wired rooms just to hear him. Much later I found his very large painting in their main eatery. A student in my catechism class said much later to me, "You actually met him!?"

Endlessly Portraying the Past

 

A relative let everyone know that Columbia University was the place for a master's degree in teaching. She earned the degree and let everyone know. 

After WWII, Eisenhauer became the university president and glided into that presidency, an odd change. 

Meanwhile, Colombia's seminary grew smaller, into  the tiny Union Seminary. The shrinking Union got into a fight around faculty and its refusal to agree. A famous theological visitor  said, "I am not lecturing there with a big fight going on." Doubtless many got upset, so my source talked about it from one source or another.

People who enjoy history can always find something unusual.