Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President and Fellows thus answered the desire of many students, faculty members, and alumni for a more open house of Christian worship in the Yard, a desire expressed over the past three weeks by essays, letters, petitions, and charges stemming from a discussion of "Religion at Harvard" by William W. Bartley III '56 in the CRIMSON of March...
...this basis, the Corporation agreed "that such private services may be conducted in Memorial Church by an official of an indiviudual's own religion when this is desired, provided he is willing to do so notwithstanding the church's essentially Christian character. As in the past, the responsibility for granting permission for the use of the church is lodged with the Chairman of the Board of Preachers...
...Throughout its history," the Corporation explained, "Harvard has felt obligated to provide a place of Christian worship for members of the University community. In continuing to do so, the University does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed...
...services are conducted both in response to a want felt by many of its members and in recognition of the fact that worship has an appropriate place in a community of learning. The form of worship in the Memorial Church stems from Harvard's Christian tradition...
Before fatigue compels suspension of the current controversy about the place of religion at Harvard, we, the undersigned, who disagree as radically about the truth of Christian doctrine as we agree about the importance of truth and the reasonableness of conviction, believe we should speak out in favor of the side of the argument which has so far been almost unrepresented. What we think has been neglected is the traditional and true conception of the church and indeed of what tolerance means...