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Prayer Book Reform. Numerous steps were taken in the process of Prayer Book reform. The "39 Articles of Faith," adopted by the Church in 1562 to distinguish it from other Protestant Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, were dropped. "Obey" and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" were dropped from the marriage service. Such expressions as "miserable sinners," "the vengeance of God," "the wrath of God" were dropped as medieval. ' The proposal to change "the grin of a dog" to "the snarl of a dog" was defeated. The Litany was amended to petition for those who travel...
...Omit from the marriage service the word "obey" and the phrase "with all my worldly goods I thee endow...
...Manhattan, W. E. Harmon gave $50,000 to endow a cinema company?the Religious Motion Picture Co., which will produce films to be used as religious propaganda. No scenario, studio, actors or plan of action has yet been chosen. These things will come in time," said Mr. Harmon. "We have the money. That is the important thing...
...King Edward College of Medicine at Singapore, $350,000 to endow chairs of Bacteriology and Chemistry was last week's gift of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Surely this is not asking too much of a University which has always been known as the cultural leader of the country. It is a cause backed by a host of Harvard graduates, who have many times before offered to endow such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...