Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christopher Niebuhr '56, president of the HLU, explained to Watson the club's financial need, to be able to show the movie. He asked Watson to allow the HLU to stage at least this one film, to make up the money that the planned showing would have earned...
...able to show the picture Monday," Christopher Niebuhr '56, President of the Harvard Liberal Union, said last night. "We find it rather difficult to reschedule a hall for Monday in such short notice...
Christopher Niebuhr '56, of Lowell House and New York City, was elected President of the Harvard Liberal Union last night. Niebuhr is also a New England regional representative to the national board of the Students for Democratic Action...
...have come trippingly in the 20th century. It is a species of poetry (Santayana); it is a variety of shared experiences (Dewey); it is ethical culture; it is insight into man's nature. (The last is the view of a group that might be called 'Atheists for Niebuhr')." All these views, says White, have one thing in common: the desire "to avoid identifying religion with any claim to knowledge that might have to run the gauntlet of scientific test." Most contemporary thinkers want "to make religion fill the void created by the dissolving effects of science, both...
While the Liberal Union has taken no official stand, Niebuhr has said that he may attend the hearing. "If the hearing doesn't end today, it is possible that the Liberal Union will take a definite position at our meeting tonight. There is only one chance in a hundred that we will not oppose the rate increase if we do take an official position," he said...