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...Pope had sided with the presidents; they also discovered that he had overruled the council on two other matters. On his own authority, the Pope had made 19 changes in the final draft of a schema on Christian unity that had already been accepted by the council in chapter-by-chapter votes. Some of the changes clearly modified the ecumenical intentions of the prelates. The text approved by the bishops noted that Protestants "find God," through the grace of the Holy Spirit, in Scripture; Paul made it "seek God." The Pope also announced that he would proclaim Mary as "Mother...
...novel about a novelist writing a novel. The work opens with a preface by a fictional publisher explaining that Author Edward Thornhill has died in an auto accident in Catalonia, and that what follows is two abortive beginnings of his last novel, the novel itself, a chapter of memoirs, and a short story. The resulting collection, though inherently multi-tiered and multi-baffling, is an evocative elucidation by British Novelist Paul Scott of the incestuous interplay of experience and art that is the creative process...
...University Committee on Discrimination in Fraternities ordered in 1962 that local fraternities either eliminate the discriminatory clause from their national charters within a "reasonable time" or withdraw from the national organizations. The Brown chapter of Sigma Nu, whose national charter contains discriminatory provisions, became independent voluntarily last week. Phi Delta Theta will follow suit in December...
Brown has not been alone in protesting fraternity discrimination. The Stanford chapter of Sigma Nu dropped its national affiliation in 1962, after joining the Brown unit in opposing the discrimination clause. Recently, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Tufts, and the University of Rhode Island have decided to allow chapters to obtain local waivers of a discrimination clause in a national constitution...
...M.I.T. chapter of Sigma Nu will remain openly discriminatory. "There are a lot of Southerners in the house who don't particularly want Negroes," Frank DeRemer, lieutenant-commander of the chapter, explained this week...