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...Methodist Boston University. To celebrate the dedication of its new $2,000,000 School of Theology and its $1,000,000 chapel, the ninth largest university in the U.S. last week held a two-day "MidCentury Institute on Religion in a World of Tensions." On hand to make addresses and receive honorary degrees were eleven big names in assorted walks of life, ranging from United Auto Workers' President Walter P. Reuther, who got an LL.D., to Professor Georges Florovsky of St. Vladimir's Orthodox...
...translate moral and ethical values into basic economic and political decisions." President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America appealed for a permanent commission to inculcate "moral and spiritual values" into the U.S. public school system. But Boston University's President, black-browed, white-haired Methodist Minister Daniel L. Marsh, resplendent in a self-designed scarlet mortarboard and scarlet robe with ermine epaulets, dramatized the new temper of the times in terms any freshman could understand. In his address he called attention to the fact that the new limestone chapel, which bears his name, adjoins...
Building Code. In Dallas, coeds at two Southern Methodist University dormitories were urged to stop sunbathing on house balconies because they were causing steelworkers to dawdle on the school's $8,000,000 building program...
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, 64, head of the Methodist Council of Bishops and the Ecumenical Council of Methodist Churches, announced that he would marry Mrs. Starr Carithers, a widow of Winder, Ga., on March 27. The formal announcement was made in Washington at a luncheon given by the bishop's good friends, Vice President & Mrs. Alben Berkley, at whose wedding he had officiated...
Nearly a thousand Protestant and Catholic Sunday-school teachers crowded last week through the pillared facade of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Temple and jammed its high-domed auditorium. Three-quarters of them were women, but there were also some Presbyterian elders and Methodist deacons. Most of them had never been in a Jewish place of worship before. This was the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers...