A SALUTARY INFLUENCE without a change in College polity, he named a small faculty committee on synodical relations and, at his first board meeting in December 1952, recommended that a special committee be named "to study the possibility of according representation among its membership to supporting Synods." The board quickly concurred, but progress was slow. A year later the committee chairman reported that the task was "very much uncharted" and would "involve time, and consultation, and large quantities of careful and diligent study." Although a show of hands at the June 1954 meeting demonstrated what the minutes described as an "overwhelming majority" in favor of synodical representation, the committee had made no substantive report by th...