Word: mortarboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Being is Tillich's replacement for the old symbol of "salvation," and he can take off his theologian's mortarboard and write about it with evangelical passion. "We should not be too worried about the Christian religion, about the state of the Churches, about membership and doctrines, about institutions and ministers . . . [These] are of no importance if the ultimate question is asked, the question of a New Reality . . . We should worry more about [this] than about anything else between heaven and earth. The New Creation-this is our ultimate concern; this should be our infinite passion . . . In comparison...
...Jack Russell, 250-pound president of the Cleveland City Council and one of America's last--and most competent--political ward bosses, came to Harvard this week to teach "the kids" a few lessons in practical politics and, incidentally, to have his picture taken in a mortarboard, standing next to the Harvard drum. But the drum had already gone to New Haven...
...Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist...
Writing "In Praise of Dissent" in the New York Times Book Review, ex-Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill...
...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 the new theology school on one side, and the colleges of Liberal...