Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess I'm guilty...
...theory might have prevailed if disgruntled scholars and disputatious monks had not begun a muttering campaign against Galileo which forced the issue prematurely. Yet Galileo was held in such esteem that when a Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty thousand brothers may and do actually commit...
...fellowship winners were: Roger D. Masters, of Eliot House and Newton, government; Richard N. Ringler, of Lowell House and Elm Grove, Wis., English; Jonathan Steinberg of Eliot House and New York City, economics; Christian G. Wolff, of Lowell House and New York City, comparative literature...
Douglas Horton, Minister of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches, is the new dean of the Divinity School...
...mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth of the Christian church, shows that the Dark Ages knew glory...