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...five years ago, he was a new broom that swept in religion. An even newer if considerably smaller broom is now trying to sweep some of it out again. Pusey and his emphasis on religion were being breezily challenged by a second-year graduate student in philosophy, William Warren Bartley III ('56). Vehicle of his attack: an 8,000-word Crimson article on Harvard's "button-down hair shirt...
...dazzling collection of theological big-leaguers, including Paul Tillich, Richard R. Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, Georges Florovsky, Douglas Horton, George A. Buttrick, George H. Williams. Memorial Church, once sparsely attended, now teems with students who come Sundays to hear Presbyterian Buttrick fulfill his official function as Preacher to the University. Bartley's quarrel with all this: religion in a university should not subordinate thinking to commitment or individual, disciplined analysis to "Big Answers...
Committed Teaching? There is a wide division among faculty and administrative officers at Harvard, says Bartley, on two Pusey tenets. The first is that religion should be taught by men who are committed to it. Against this he cites Philosophy Professor Morton White in a speech at Hillel House: "There have been great Catholic students of Catholic theology and great non-Catholic students of it. There have been great Protestant students of Jewish theology. There have been great Jewish students of Catholic theology ... A scholar and teacher must insist that it is possible to understand a statement without accepting...
Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...
...Bartley C. Crum, a noted lawyer and member of the 1946 Anglo-American Committee on Inquiry into Palestine, charged last night that, "The Eisenhower Middle East Doctrine is an extension of the Monroe Doctrine into the Eastern Hemisphere...