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Harmony at Harvard. While the brethren in Manhattan were quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among...
Four hundred or more people have accepted invitations to attend the sessions to be held at Harvard Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13 under the direction of the Calvert Round Table of Boston. This organization will hold a seminar in the Fogg Museum on those days to discuss various aspects of problems arising from the relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants...
...seminar, which is modelled on the lines of a similar meeting held at Columbia University on January 30 and 31 of this year, will be sponsored by the Calvert Round Table of Boston, a group of approximately 100 representative laymen of different religious beliefs. The seminar to be held at Harvard is the first activity of the organization, whose membership list is made up of individuals outstanding in many lines of endeavor in Boston and vicinity. No one active in political life or holding elected public office is eligible to the organization...
Three gatherings will be held, and the meetings are open to members of the Calvert Round Table and a list of guests to whom invitations have already been sent. The first one will discuss vocational adjustment in its relation to religion and race bases. The second will treat of misrepresentation of religious beliefs and practices, and how best to lessen them or effect their elimination. The third table will consider questions of community cooperation and conflict; and to what extent cooperation, ignoring religious divisions fons has proved successful in different communities
...Calvert Associates were chartered in 1922 under the New York State laws as an educational society. Their leader is Michael Williams, convert to Roman Catholicism, editor of The Commonweal. Profits made by the Calvert Associates from the sale of their books, etc., are applied to the promotion of religious liberty, more specifically to the dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there...