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When Christ said 'If you wish to be perfect, come and follow Me,' did He mean by 'you' only persons of Caucasian ancestry?" So the Rev. Claude H. Heit-haus, S.J., of Marquette University angrily asks in the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America. Professor Heithaus had recently read that 17 diocesan seminaries, 52 religious seminaries and 25 congregations of nuns of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. are now accepting Negro candidates. That reminded him that there are 47 Roman Catholic diocesan seminaries, 285 religious seminaries and 209 congregations of nuns still unaccounted...
...States, and at many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
Instances such as the CRIMSON's use of the term may easily be pointed out as examples of a "Western Superiority" attitude by non-Caucasian peoples. We feel that a newspaper organization which represents Harvard should be sufficiently discerning to prevent such unfortunate, although unintentional, references from appearing in its articles. Chae Chu Chi '52 James Bouzoukis '52 William Vasquez...
...unwritten laws which force him, in most communities, to buy only rundown houses in rundown districts. Four years ago, as a broker in a big Los Angeles real-estate firm, she took a call from another broker asking about a new house. Asked Mrs. Grant: "Is your client a Caucasian?" The answer from the caller, a Negro, was cold and angry: "No she's not, and neither...
...handsomest of all the Caucasians are the aristocratic Abkhasians, who trace their lineage back to Prometheus; if the stranger doesn't believe it, they point out the Caucasian rock to which he was chained by Zeus for stealing the Olympian fire. Local legends say that the Abkhasians are endowed with a beauty that must one day prove their undoing, but from the Caucasus last week came news that one of the handsomest of them all was still doing fine. Mamsir Kiut was a boy of 17 when Napoleon marched on Moscow. In the village of Kindig, he took time...