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...acquired the present location in 1947. Previously, the property had belonged to the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery. When the institution failed, its owners gave the property to the Alpert-Goldstein group on the condition that whatever university be established, it must operate without discrimination as to race, creed or color...
...Indian neighbors and planned to get along without an army or navy. His colony did so for 73 years, until its Quaker-dominated legislature voted funds in 1755 for the French & Indian War. But then and later, Quakers found the U.S. more hospitable than most countries to their creed.* This week, for the first time in history, a group of Quakers were planning to leave the U.S. because of their peace-loving convictions...
Baptized Stoicism. The Protestants, he snapped, had little to feel satisfied about. "Calvinism is a fine, manly creed; it is simply baptized stoicism. But as it worships a God who is neither just nor merciful, we can hardly call it Christian." Take Martin Luther: "My detestation of that man grows. This spiritual father of Adolf Hitler says that the state can do no wrong. 'It is God that hangs and beheads men and breaks them on the wheel.' Has any doctrine caused more human misery than this...
Most Probable Danger. The Communists' creed, Judge Hand found, includes "the violent capture of all existing governments." The only question is "how long a government, having discovered such a conspiracy, must wait. When does the conspiracy become 'a present danger...
...took on a new importance, and here & there the conviction sprang up that the time for Christ's return was close at hand. The Seventh Day Adventists, so-called because they celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), set no date for the second coming, and they avoided a set creed. But Adventists adhere to a strict code: no unnecessary work on the Sabbath, no bearing arms (though they will serve in noncombat branches in wartime), and plenty of fervent evangelizing...