Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder if your artist realized how perfectly the bound crosses behind Bishop Oxnam's picture demonstrate the failure of many modern churches. No longer are church leaders willing to let an individual Christ on an individual cross strive to save an individual soul; rather they must concern themselves with organization...
...Let us not fret overmuch at the "brekekekex koäx" of ecclesiastical discussion. What if the men who make religion their business do sound much like the men whose business is politics? They are both debating problems which have beset mankind for a long time. The U.N. diplomats are struggling with the problem of nationalism, which in our culture is only a few centuries old, and it may be solved in a few more centuries. The problems which beset religion are much older, and will be much longer in the solving...
Director Malcolm Holmes '28 put the band through its paces on the gym steps. The crowd, pressing around the steps for half a block each way, refused to let the musicians go home until they played the perennial favorite, "Wintergreen...
...College--the original name for Columbia--rules decreed that "none of the pupils shall fight Cocks, play at Cards, Dice or any unlawful game;" to 1946, when the college was able to dominate the Columbia Spectator, Columbia's daily newspaper; and to 1947, when college officials refused to let a student group sponsor a talk by Howard Fast, convicted of contempt of a Congressional committee, only the degree and not the spirit of deans office intervention into student life has changed...
...Communists want to fellow travel with me, let them travel...