Billy Graham's integrated crusade in Greenville, S.C., last week drew so many people to the huge Textile Hall that he had to go on double sessions. But for Billy, success was touched with sadness. Boycotting the crusade were the 3,800 intensely religious students and faculty of fundamentalist Bob Jones University, where Graham studied and "got my evangelism."
Graham lasted only three months at Bob Jones U. (and went on to graduate from Wheaton College in Illinois in 1943). He found the school's strict discipline, which punishes students with demerits and bans them from dancing, smoking and even going to commercial movies,...
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