Presidency
In 1934, James Gray, then-president of Moody Bible Institute, visited Calvary Baptist and, impressed with Houghton, offered him the presidency of the Institute. The Board of Trustees extended an official offer on 16 August 1934, and Houghton succeeded Gray on 1 November 1934. Houghton was president at MBI for twelve years. During his first eleven years, enrollment increased 70%. He also directed the D. L. Moody Centenary Celebration that was held on 5 February 1937 and oversaw construction of a twelve-story administrative building at 820 North LaSalle Street, dedicated on 4 February 1939 (renamed Crowell Hall in 1945). In addition to the start of WMBI broadcasting regularly, Houghton established fundamentalist chain radio broadcasts and the Moody Institute of Science. In 1950, the Institute named a nine-story women's dormitory Houghton Hall after William Henry Houghton.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidency:
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)