Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian, Wilburn B. Miller, expressed pleasure at the Corporation's decision, calling it a "step in the right direction." He said that he would be happy if non-Christian services other than funerals and weddings could be held in Memorial Church...
...clearly gain that the Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship.... Today as earlier, the Christian church within the complex society of contemporary Harvard has a duty while keeping its identity to try to honor the convictions of each member of the Harvard community...
...Accordingly--in part because the church building is a memorial to all the Harvard men who fell in World Wars I and II--we recognize, as our predecessors did, that Harvard's Christian church ought, whenever it appropriately can, to offer hospitality to members of its community for private marriage and funeral ceremonies...
...Affirms Christian Nature of Church...
...Christian nature of Memorial Church has now been recognized, as a result of the past week's discussion," President Pusey asserted yesterday. "A house of worship must be a structure with a specific character," he affirmed. "This is a house of God, not a secular building...