The late vacuum-cleaner tycoon, William Henry Hoover, made a fortune out of helping to clean man's material house. To help clean man's spiritual house as well, Hoover left $50,000 to the Disciples of Christ "for the publication of writings on Christian unity." But in 1945, after 13 years of such propaganda, the Disciples decided that the money could best be used for a lectureship on the same significant subject. The Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago was made sponsor.
Last week, in the University's musty old Mandel Hall, the first Hoover...
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