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...reporter from the Yale Daily News was sent to report the visiting speaker. This time it was no routine chapel assignment. The News reporter wrote: "An electrically tense audience packed itself into Battell Chapel last night to hear Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr." The reporter did not exaggerate. For three successive nights Niebuhr, a lightning-fast speaker, held Yale undergraduates spellbound, and left behind a ferment of discussion...
...Daily Orange, the Syracuse student paper, said that it had learned that the Reverend Gannon Ryan, Syracuse's Catholic priest, had voiced the original objection to Mather's speech at the chapel dinner opening Brotherhood Week...
...Reverend Charles Noble, dean of Syracuse's Hendricks Chapel, said that Mather had been invited instead to deliver the Protestant service Sunday morning "as a token of good faith...
Noble explained that the invitation had been withdrawn "in the interest of all-chapel unity," because of Mather's . . . "relationships with certain organizations, listed by the attorney-general's office as objectionable...
Last week President Truman went up to Philadelphia to speak at the opening of a $300,000, all-faiths chapel dedicated to their memory. The President was escorted by Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chaplain of the chapel and father of one of the heroic four.* His voice echoing through the limestone archways, Harry Truman spoke with unconcealed emotion...