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From the first class of young divines who went forth in 1642 to enlighten their congregations. Harvard College exerted an uncommon influence on the growing colonies, and John Langdon Sibley, Harvard librarian from 1856-77, was keenly aware of the record. But where, he once wrote distressedly, "was that record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hymning Harvard's Sons | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Moment of Ecstasy | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Let Eleanor and her "Protestant divines" read what happened to the Bradshaws . . . and let them go to and among the filthy Chinese; if they get back to the U.S., to how many Communists would they want to grant "Christmas amnesty"? Also her comments about Nixon. Who gives a damn what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

To the Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Held under the auspices of Episcopalianism's conservative American Church Union, the ceremony highlighted the first of nine eucharistic congresses being held this week throughout the U.S. (The oth ers: in Cleveland, Evanston, 111., Fond du Lac, Wis., Milwaukee, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.) In the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Common Prayer | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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