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JESUS OUSTED BY CHURCHES IN MERGING. Under this eye-catching headline the Austin (Texas) American reported the labor pains of a new denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...
...Reported that Russian will be included in C.E.E.B.'s achievement tests. Russian is now being taught by 96 member colleges, as well as 400 U.S. secondary schools. ¶ Admitted 50 secondary schools (and 37 more colleges) to C.E.E.B. membership for the first time. Reason: with more curriculums based on college tests, the schools want a voice in running C.E.E.B. ¶ Heard a prediction from C.E.E.B. President Frank Bowles that the average U.S. college within 25 years will boost requirements by one full year-applying the same standards to incoming freshmen as it does now to sophomores...
...social privileges at the quadrangle, says Lippincott, will be "roughly comparable to those on Prospect Street." While membership in the new quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...
...special committee, instituted this year for the first time, will read all suggested plays and "dismiss only those impossible to produce." The membership of the HDC will then ballot on the spring production...
...membership includes many types of people: solid citizen businessman, who does not want his financial interests subverted by politicians who might try to squeeze more taxes for their own profit; the young, liberal Democrat, favoring a clean city government, free of the bad qualities of bossism; and natural minorities like Jews and Negroes who see the CCA as a road by which they can express and protect their interests...