Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Commencements, members of the graduating class will deliver orations in Latin and English; the President, seated in his ancient Tudor chair, will admit Bachelors to the "fellowship of educated men," and recipients of doctoral degrees to the "ancient and universal company of scholars." Honorary degrees, like that first one conferred on George Washington, will be given to those distinguished few who have done something for Harvard in specific or humanity in general. With each honorary degree, the President will pronounce a short testimonial, composed in a flowery language reminiscent of the eighteenth century...
...University Marshal will call: "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." The sheriff will do so; and after the invocation and addresses in English and Latin by Lewis B. Kaden '63, Norman E. Thurston '63, and Whitney II. Garard 3L, President Pusey will admit the Class of 1963 "to the fellowship of educated...
Class Marshall that year were C. Russel Allen, Vernon H. Struck, and John L. Dampeer, Chairman for the Class Day Committee was Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Then, in June 1938, the Class collected their degrees, joined the fellowship of educated men and headed out into the world...
Moved by such forthright oratory, the 840 commissioners (delegates) at the 175th Presbyterian General Assembly in Des Moines last week overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the church constitution, declaring that Presbyterians "are obligated to welcome into fellowship" anyone who desires to share in their worship, and that refusal on the basis of "color, origin or worldly condition" causes "a scandal to the Gospel." With less unanimity, they went on to take a strong stand, roughly like the U.S. Supreme Court's, against Bible-reading and prayers in public schools...
...alive can match Van Dusen's diverse ecclesiastical talents. A superb administrator, he has seen Union's faculty change from a sometimes tempestuous aggregation of individual stars (including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bible Scholar James Moffatt) to what he calls "a constellation of scholars in intimate fellowship." During Van Dusen's presidency, Union's enrollment doubled (to 640), its endowment grew by $10 million, and bright new scholars inaugurated lively departments dealing with psychiatry and religion and religious drama...