Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacation from the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, TIME'S Stringer Fred Kiewit, 35. checked in at TIME'S Chicago Bureau and went to work on reports that the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125.861 chapters; assets: $10 billion), once the strongholds of U.S. good-fellowship and male society, have suffered a disheartening drop in prestige and attendance. Himself a sometime member of the Masons' DeMolay. Reporter Kiewit core-sampled the fraternal orders in the Midwest, from Elks to Moose to Knights of Pythias. Taking off from the hub of Chicago, TIME queried eight other stringers...
This week, in a sermon at New Haven, the Archbishop of Canterbury presented a memorable definition of the role of the World Council in relation to Christianity. "We of the churches can enjoy our fellowship with one another in the family of God-for the moment doing without reliance on scriptural, credal, ministerial or sacramental orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt...
This British-style experiment in integration really started last spring. Anglican Jory, who has long run a camp for boys from the slums of Leeds, got a letter from the chaplain of Oxford's Pembroke College explaining that a group of Christian Fellowship undergraduates had offered to serve as counselors. The letter gave Jory another idea. Perhaps, he reasoned, the Oxonians might be just the people to give Borstal boys a glimpse into a world they had never known...
...moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
Graduating seniors will discover in the immediate future that the fellowship of educated men, like any good society, demands a constant and continuing obligation. In a letter shortly to be received by all members of the Class of 1957, John S. Tomajan '14, outgoging chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, stresses the College's dependence on "the practiced loyalty" of all alumni for financial support...