Word: christe
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Although somewhat obscured by the ponderous University across the Common, Christ Church has fought long and well for a place in Cambridge's traditions. Since 1759 the small, simple wooden structure has been collecting tales of great names and Continental troops that would turn Massachusetts Hall green with ivy. Its history is inextricably tied to that of New England as well as to that of Harvard; and today, with Radcliffe College on one side and the grave of Henry Dunster on the other, it is as strong a Harvard tradition as Leavitt and Peirce...
...very founding of Christ Church was associated with the College. While the accomodation of the local Church of England families was the primary reason for its organization, the students of Dissenter Harvard were also considered, and the Archbishop of Canterbury was urged to send a missionary who might "give a right turn to the Youth who are educated there." He sent the Reverend East Apthorp, whose Cambridge home is now occupied by the Master of Adams House, but the Puritan masters of the College and community lost little time in driving him back to England...
...Today Christ Church leads an active parish of students and townsfolk which has far outgrown the little gray building. Despite its career and its antiquity it shows no signs of degenerating into a mere museum...
...have exonerated me of lecherous attacks on me by scurrilous people who have no heart for the toilers. These attacks vere attempts to destroy our movement and turn it over to outside interests. . . . Christ said: 'Forgive them for they know not what they...
...Must we not make the gulf much wider? Ought not our opposition to him to be genuinely Christian? . . . Our resistance to Hitler will be built on a really sure foundation only when we resist him unequivocally in the name of peculiarly Christian truth, unequivocally in the name of Jesus Christ...