Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good measure of self-government is added to the college through its far-reaching Honor Code, which is administered by the Judicial Board. The code concerns all aspects of college life: academic, social, church and chapel requirements, and library regulations. According to President Gettell, the system works; according to the girls, it is a fine thing...
...Harvard, religion has in recent years caused some disturbance at Mount Holyoke. A good deal of student opposition to the former church and chapel requirements brought a change in policy by the Board of Trustees. A statement released by the Board this fall stated that "Mount Holyoke College is a private institution, unaffiliated with any church. It is non-denominational in its admission policy and in selecting its faculty. It welcomes students and teachers of all faiths. But it follows a long tradition, based on New England Protestantism, of counting exposure to the spiritual and ethical values of religion...
...year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church had rallied earlier from a coma and partial paralysis that attended a sroke Monday, but other symptoms recurred...
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...
...vicar of a London church during the World War II blitz, Phillips discovered why it was so hard to get the rudiments of Christianity across to the young people of his parish: the King James version of the Bible was a foreign language to them. So he began to translate it himself into the kind of talk they could understand. His first section, the Epistles, so delighted Oxford's C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis that he wrote an introduction for it and supplied the title: Letters to Young Churches (it sold more than a million copies...