Word: episcopalian
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Other boys were joking about it as they left the hall, but Pit sat down by himself to think it over. He felt far from being a Christian, decided to do nothing about his pledge, just wait and see what would happen. What happened was that the local Episcopalian minister, who got Pitney's pledge card from Evangelist Sunday, spoke to his mother, and Pitney honored his word by joining the church. "If it hadn't been for that, I don't know when I'd have joined, if ever," he says...
Over two years ago the Eliot House Chapel was organized in a basement room in the House in order to provide morning and evening prayers and devotional services. Although the chapel is used by Catholics, Protestants, and Episcopalians, the group which started it and continues to retain the most interest in it is Episcopal. In the fall of 1952 a similar group was established in a basement room of Matthews Hall for freshmen, also by predominantly Episcopalian interests...
...much commented on recently is an outgrowth and a reflection of the social scene in the nation as well as here. A significant number of College students are members of upper-middle and lower-upper class families. The religious complexion of these families in the nation is primarily Episcopalian and Jewish. As a result the predominant religious membership on the campus is Episcopalian and Jewish. In addition, a large portion of the student body in the College each year graduates from the many New England Episcopal prep schools, such as Groton, St. Paul's St. Mark's Kent...
This, coupled with the predominantly Christian tradition of the University and the fact that the President, most of the Corporation and Overseers, most of the College Deans, and a large part of the alumni are Episcopalian has caused many to charge that the University is being taken over by them. This seems particularly ironical after centuries of identification of Harvard with Unitarianism...
...Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University, and Episcopalian Ethan A. H. Shepley, chancellor of Washington University. As the guest speaker, Baptist Truman had something useful to tell them all about that much-abused term, brotherhood. Excerpts from his speech...