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...because they combine a maximum of spiritual freedom with a minimum of churchly trappings. Their congregations practice baptism by immersion, elect their own pastors, allow laymen (and women) to conduct the austere Sunday services, which may omit a sermon but never omit Communion. The Disciples have no confession or creed, and the divinity of Christ is their sole rule of faith. "Ever since the beginning, we've been scared to death that we'd arrive at a theology everyone would have to subscribe to," says Industrialist J. Irwin Miller, a lay Disciple and president of the National Council...
...Glimp all emphasized that the search was not just for Negro students, but for all talented students, particularly in the South. All said they were unable to tabulate resulting increases in the number of Negro applicants since the Massachusetts Fair Education Practice Act forbids reference to race, color, or creed on applications, although the Columbia Spectator has reported that Harvard admits more Negroes than any other Ivy school...
...First President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust. "We would like it to be known," said Brown, "that there is in this church no doctrine, belief or practice that is intended to deny the enjoyment of full civil rights by any person regardless of race, color or creed...
...astonishment at learning that his old Princeton classmate, Edmund Wilson, a man whom he regarded as his literary conscience, was suddenly to be heard expounding Marxist sociology. "Up Mallarmé!" was Fitzgerald's reaction to the dawn of a decade that was to be hostile to his esthetic creed...
Founded in 1924, NUSAS accepts all college students as members "irrespective of race, color, or creed." At present 19 colleges belong to NUSAS, and all students attending these colleges are automatically NUSAS members unless they specifically resign; few have done so. Member colleges include the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Rhodes, and Natal, several teachers colleges, and two theological schools...