Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your report that I had announced I was leaving the Episcopal Church "partially because it is a 'dying institution' and partially because Bishop Myers refused to officiate" at my marriage [May 23]: as to the first, I had said that "the declining of the church as such has no bearing . . . on whether a sincere, thoughtful person should remain in it or not"; but that it was the reasons for the decline which persuaded me. As to the second, I had stated: "Bishop Myers . . . granted me a favorable judgment as to my marital status in the eyes...
...leadership of Mem Church fell to me because I could jell more people around me than anyone else," Glazier said. As former chairman of the influential student committee, "I was the least common denominator," he added...
...tired of the pressures of holding together a group which was well-intentioned but totally unorganized and without any mandate for forging policy. While Kaplan continued through the entire wekend and authored the final proposal that ended the strike on April. 18, Glazier announced the dissolution of the Mem Church Group at the first mass meeting on Monday, April 14. Within three hours, he was on his way to the Cape with a friend from the Mem Church group to get away for two days...
...students met in Memorial Church and called a three-day strike to protest the use of police. The group sent out a list of demands including dropping criminal charges against arrested demonstrators, keeping police off the campus, holding a binding referendum on ROTC, and restructuring the Corporation. SDS held it sown meeting at night and decided to form separate picket lines...
...university--any university--has a distinctive competence, a special nature. That competence is not to serve as a government, or a consulting firm, or a polity, or a pressure group, or a family, or a kind of secularized church; it is to serve as a center of learning and free inquiry. Because of the devotion to learning, and a belief in the importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part...