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Before a student's ordination, the exchange program at other theological schools would also widen his experience, Coburn said. At present, four seminaries in the Boston area -- Harvard, Andover Newton, Boston University, and the Episcopal Theological School -- allow cross-registration for courses, he added, but only a small minority of their students take advantage of the system...
...Chicago, production chairman; C.C. Pei '67, of Adams House and New York City, photography chairman; David C. Jimerson '63, of Eliot House and Reading, Pa., editorial chairman; Robert F. Sproull '67, of Quincy House and, Ithaca, N.Y., assistant business manager; Richard A. Stone '68, of Leverett House and Newton, secretary...
Amnesty operates on a shoestring $50,000-a-year budget in a dingy fifth-floor office in London's Crane Court, where Sir Isaac Newton presided over the Royal Society. Benenson, assisted by a staff of eight full-time workers, farms out individual prisoners to Amnesty's 430 volunteer groups in 20 countries. Last week he was in the U.S. to drum up support for the 21st group, which has just been set up in Manhattan. Local chapters use every imaginable publicity weapon to dramatize the cases of their "adopted prisoners" -letters to newspapers, fund-raising campaign parties...
Elementary and Secondary-school teachers from Boston, Brookline, Concord, Lexington, Newton, and possibly Cambridge will be among the 25 trained as "teacher-liasons" in the project. They will get a six-week course from Ed School Faculty members including a study of a research project, a discussion of the school's role in the community, and a seminar on educational innovation...
...secularizing process was science. The Copernican revolution was a shattering blow to faith in a Bible that assumed the sun went round the earth and could be stopped in its tracks by divine intervention, as Joshua claimed. And while many of the pioneers of modern science ?Newton and Descartes, for example ?were devout men, they assiduously explained much of nature that previously seemed godly mysteries. Others saw no need for such reverential lip service. When he was asked by Napoleon why there was no mention of God in his new book about the stars, the French astronomer Laplace...