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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announcing Buttrick's retirement, President Pusey commended his "bold and kindly ministry,' "his wisdom and scholarship in the fields of religion, religious philosophy, homiletics, and parish work," and his "many imaginative contributions to the activity of the Memorial Church...
...fall of 1954, when Buttrick's appointment was announced, the post of University preacher had been vacant for one and a half years. Despite speculation during the previous spring that the new head of memorial Church would have no teaching duties, Buttrick also became an active professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Shortly before Buttrick came to Cambridge, President Pusey asked a number of distinguished guest preachers for the Spring term to cancel their Sunday visits to memorial Church, so that Buttrick (called by Life magazine one of the nation's "ten greatest preachers") could deliver most of the sermons, and give the Services "Continuity...
Buttrick's duties were further increased several months later, when he was named Faculty chairman of Phillips Brooks House. During the past five years attendance and "Parish activities" at Memorial Church have shown a marked increase...
State backed up church with its own sanctions. In England until 1823 a suicide's body was buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart; until 1882 it was buried at night. All the property of a suicide was confiscated until 1870. Today in England, suicide is still considered at law a felony (both in England and the U.S. an attempted suicide is a misdemeanor...