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...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, advised Radcliffe degree candidates that their learning would prove to be a "slow overtaking of the plan of the world" in his Baccalaureate address at Memorial Church yesterday afternoon...
...Board of Preachers will reach its full complement of six members again, as the result of the appointment of Wallace Woodsome Robbins and Frederick Mayer Meek, announced last night by Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University. Both appointments were made with the unanimous concurrence of the present members of the Board...
...Buttrick stated that both of the new Members are men of great "stature and gifts." Robbins, Minister of the First Unitarian Church, Worcester, is former associate dean of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. Meek, who is senior Minister of Old South Church (Congregational), Boston, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Andover Newton Theological Seminary...
...harried hassle over Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey's pro-religion policy at the university (TIME, April 14), the most incendiary charge was that the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, refused in 1955 to permit a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Harvard's Memorial Church. On another occasion, Dr. Buttrick made his position plain: "It is intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof...
Last week Dr. Buttrick backed down. On his recommendation, the Harvard Corporation announced: "The Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship." Therefore, "such private services (as weddings and funeral services) may be conducted in Memorial Church by an official of an individual's own religion when this is desired, provided he is willing to do so notwithstanding the church's essentially Christian character...