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...past is to be seen. If history is concerned "to say everything is dead," Boston is historical. Besides the monuments and museums and the frigate Constitution, there are dozens of graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, the King's Chapel Cemetery. The burial ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Pedestrian Impressions | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...editorial alluded to above was written about an incident involving compulsory chapel. It seems Labovitz and another student got up and walked out of the middle of a sermon on the material advantages of church membership. Labovitz says he was then called up by Edward R. Durgin, dean of students, and told that "if you don't like chapel, you shouldn't be at Brown." The Herald wrote an editorial criticizing various aspects of chapel, and they in turn were criticized. "I didn't feel that that was a very just move on the part of the University," William...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Brown Man's Burden | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...Reverened George A. Buttrick, preacher to the University, will offer a prayer "for liberty and peace in Middle Europe" at this morning's service in Appleton Chapel. The Memorial Church bell will also toll for two minutes at 9 a.m. "in mourning for all those who have given their lives in Hungary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buttrick to Deliver Prayer for Liberty | 11/1/1956 | See Source »

...turned back the clocks atop Busch-Reisinger Museum or in the Music Building or Holden Chapel, perhaps indicating a certain obliviousness to worldly things on the part of the artistically-minded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Clocks Fail To Make EST Shift | 10/30/1956 | See Source »

...Church integration won a victory in Oklahoma City, where the Rev. Robert H. Alexander, pastor of Avery Chapel, was unanimously elected the first Negro president of the Oklahoma City Council of Churches. His is one of six Negro congregations among the council's 55 churches. Integration suffered a setback in Philadelphia, where the Rev. David E. Gregory. 40, resigned as pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church when his congregation refused to admit Negroes to membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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