Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for special privilege...
...however, its tenets are seldom recognized as the credo of a faith, which rests on assumptions as unprovable as any other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings of a visible church: the hierophantic gamut running from teaching fellow to full professor; the sacraments of grades and commencement, the semi-monastic existence of acolyte graduate students, and ordained faculty...
...Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics they become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...
...University community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...
...Harvard. Although there was a comparable number of Jews, there were far fewer Orthodox and Conservative, the majority being Reform. Radcliffe showed a somewhat higher percentage of Episcopalians--6 for every 5 at Harvard. (This disproportion was corroborated by the personal observations of the Rev. Donald Maitland of Christ Church...