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Also rejected by the Reformation was the Catholic concept that it is possible to get spiritual help through others besides God. Even today, notes Quaker Douglas V. Steere of Haverford, Protestants are highly suspicious of any claims "that would declare, or even imply, that the priest, or the saints, or the Virgin, or the institutional church stand as an indispensable intermediary." Thus Protestantism puts a stronger emphasis upon individual responsibility in prayer and worship than does Catholicism...
...tall, intense, totally organized son of a prosperous Philadelphia lawyer, Amsterdam graduated from Haverford College summa cum laude in 1957, determined "to learn everything in the world." He pursued a graduate degree in art history at Bryn Mawr while he went to Penn law school, stood No. 1 in his class, edited the law review and sharpened the "void for vagueness" doctrine (meaning failure to specify an offense) that has since invalidated many an unjust Southern...
...other campuses, students are seeking to reform discriminatory practices allegedly practiced by the college administration. At Haverford, a letter to the college paper proposed that the college admit Negroes to fill 11 per cent of the incoming class, the national percentage, instead of the current one per cent. Writing to the Columbia Spectator one student decried the university's practice of purchasing slum buildings for the alleged purpose of "de-integrating" them...
...HAVERFORD COLLEGE...
...scale Northern university aid as the most practicable way of raising Negro college standards decisively and quickly, more than a dozen Northern schools are exchanging faculty members and students with Southern partners. California's Pomona, for example, is matched with Nashville's Fisk, Pennsylvania's Haverford and Bryn Mawr with North Carolina's Livingstone, Cornell with Virginia's Hampton Institute...