Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain articles appearing in the CRIMSON, has been referred to as a man given to bigotry for his alleged anti-Semitic views in the Memorial Church controversy. Yet nothing could be farther from what this man represents. Dr. Buttrick has always stood for tolerance and brotherhood among all religious faiths. On Brotherhood Day, February 24, 1944, Columbia University recognized this by conferring upon him, as a representative of the Protestant faith, and two other men, as representatives of the Catholic and of the Jewish faiths, their highest honor: Doctor of Sacred Theology, in recognition of "the growing spirit of cooperation...
...congregation at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City knew him as a staunch defender of all faiths and as a minister firmly opposed to anti-Semitism. While at Harvard, despite some impressions to the contrary, he has leaned toward inter-faith use of Memorial Church as far as the official or unofficial rulings of the Corporation would allow...
...members of the Divinity School Faculty yesterday disagreed in their opinions on the University's policy on the use of Memorial Church. Administration feeling on the question is that the church should be used only by members of a recognized Christian faith...
...second consequence, as grave as the feeling of division that has been created in the community, is the bad faith shown those sons of Harvard who have died for their countries in two World Wars and the Korean War. I cannot brook the kind of legalism that reminds us that it is not the Church which is the memorial to our dead, but only the south wall. The Church is a memorial to those who died fighting for their countries, and inscribed on the rolls are men who fought in the ranks of our then enemies. It is sufficient that...
...conquered him, but whatever youth he had once possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...