Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campus organizations, including those affiliated with an extramural organization, should be open to all students without respect to race, creed, or national origin, except for religious qualifications which may be required by organizations whose aims are primarily sectarian...
...kidding yourselves, just like all straight people who say, "This is the creed of every hippie; they all think the same, talk the same, look the same, are the same." All hippies have a different purpose. Of course, we all love and want to be loved. We see beauty in things that other people take for granted. We love flowers because they symbolize freedom. We want to live as flowers do, sway with the wind, belong to the world in a lovely sort of way. Stop writing articles on us, please. We are not to be studied. We are human...
...summies, by contrast, were quite apathetic towards the buttons. Aside from the inevitable cranks, only one bothered to pick up the gauntlet, a delightful girl from Smith whose counter-button read "I'm unimpressed." Miss Greenhouse to the contrary, the buttons were sold without regard to race, creed, or collegiate origin, but only about a dozen summies asked for them. Under the circumstances, such apathy was refreshing...
...graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. During World War II, as a chaplain to an infantry glider regiment that landed in Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division, Cosby began to think about the possibility of a new kind of ecumenical congregation based upon personal commitment rather than creed. While in Europe, he formed the experimental Airborne Christian Church, which was composed of soldiers from several faiths who organized in small groups, conducted their own prayer services even in the midst of the battle. The war over, Cosby borrowed money from friends to buy a dilapidated Washington rooming house...
...creed passed after a lively two-hour debate at which four presbyteries challenged the constitutionality of the Confession, unsuccessfully arguing that the Confession illegally eliminated the archaic, little-used Larger Catechism of 1648 from church doctrine. Still an other dispute arose over the creed's statement that the church is bound to work for peace "even at risk to national security." The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson of the Washington, D.C., presbytery proposed that the "unnecessarily provocative" passage should be expunged, since it might create security clearance problems for church members in Government service; though Elson...