the New Testament Department until his retirement in the 1970s. 81 H.B.!. 's loss of E.F. Harrison, essentially due to lack of finances,
was a blow to C~ristian higher education at Hunan.
The unfounded but rumored appointment of Charles Roberts,
as the n~w superintendent in the mid-1930s, proved the excuse for
an outburt of nationalism among the Chinese faculty and student
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body .. Twin facts, low funding and. the possibility of running
I I t e1 the -Institute on a year-by-year "faith" · basis, placed Business I Manager Roberts in the role of the sc~pe goat for these problems, He was also vunerable to criticism, as the potential head of H.B.I., from the Chinese faculty because · he lacked ~he academic credentials · of _either Keller or Harrison. 82 c~I{ ) -1 ''J ~ (_ ~l~ or _ pretext of the :rumored appointment of Roberts, j/ Hj -I ,,. the _Chinese faculty - along with local Chinese pastors~ formed l rft ·...t\'..) ~- an "Independ~nt Board of Directors" of H.B. I. , following their . 83 . ~hre~ts to .resign. which were not of his making. - ~ ... ..j;· .. · :.~ ..- mismanagement, both in Los Angeles and at Changsha, created much ·-: \ · - of the tension combined with intense Chinese nationalism - comparable to that ~xperienced at the Southern Baptist Boys School in Kaifeng, Hunan, and the Presbyterian Mission in North China. 84 Roberts ~~-~ -~ !.... ~ /\· L~ : _ _ ._ . ._ _ .. T1 :_. , -; .-... c•: · :_ .._ .... ~ -~ .- : -- ·suspected Marcus Chen to be the ringleader because of his strong 1 . t · 84 nationa ism on t e ee s o an merican e uca ion . h h 1 f A · d A major . ( religious confrontation was raging in the United States known as the Liberal-Fundamentalist controversy, and thus, Roberts challenged - -20-
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