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This letter is written as a testimony of defense for Dr. George A. Buttrick, preacher to Harvard University for the past three and one half years. Since Dr. Buttrick chooses to remain silent in his own defense, it is the duty of those who admire and respect him to rally to his support at this time...
...Buttrick, in a recent coast-to-coast radio broadcast based on certain articles appearing in the CRIMSON, has been referred to as a man given to bigotry for his alleged anti-Semitic views in the Memorial Church controversy. Yet nothing could be farther from what this man represents. Dr. Buttrick has always stood for tolerance and brotherhood among all religious faiths. On Brotherhood Day, February 24, 1944, Columbia University recognized this by conferring upon him, as a representative of the Protestant faith, and two other men, as representatives of the Catholic and of the Jewish faiths, their highest honor: Doctor...
...Buttrick has demonstrated throughout his life and ministry a love of all men regardless of their race, creed, or religion. It is hoped that the Harvard community recognizes him for the friend that he is. W. French Anderson...
...greatest reliance on increased knowledge and good works." Pusey beefed up Harvard's anemic Divinity School from a $1,000,000 endowment to $7,000,000, corralled a 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...
June. The Pusey-Buttrick forces seem to have driven out the Kennedy forces. The undergraduate directors of the Harvard Student Agencies (Inc.) will sail for Europe in an attempt "to find business opportunities for needy undergraduates." With the abolition of the Student Council, the group's old officers deliver a mimeographed letter to the undergraduate body, saying in part, "Because of certain evil and antisocial people, we, the officers who have served you so well for so long, will not get into the Law Schools of our choice." Eisenhower is still missing...