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Three University officials yesterday lauded the late Stefan Valavanis, former assistant professor of Economics, for his outstanding work in various branches of the field of Economics. Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Richard T. Gill, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Leverett House, and George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, spoke at a special service held yesterday afternoon in Memorial Church. Valavanis died after an accidental shooting last summer...
During the course of this controversy, the Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, suffered vicious attacks for antiSemitism, launched against him not so much by Jews as by those who care neither for the religion of Christ nor Moses. No Christian in the land could have less deserved these attacks than Dr. Buttrick, for Dr. Buttrick is as tolerant in his personal relations as he is eloquent in the pulpit. But behind the "Mem Church" uproar lay a deeper issue that divided a university with a strong secular tradition, fostered, among other Harvard presidents, by Unitarian Charles...
John Felstiner '58 will offer the Class Ode, which will be sung by the Class under the direction of Class Chorister Frederick Brozer '58. The program will open and close with prayers from Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University...
Although "failures plague us," Buttrick advised the candidates that they should balance "confidence and faith versus doubt and despair" and should not let themselves get "lost in the mass madness of our generation...
...Seniors, in caps and gowns, listened in silence to Pusey's sermon, during the impressively simple service led by George A. Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers...