Word: nonconformist
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...years of its existence Harvard has stood a tower of conservative liberalism. Liberalism in thought education, politics, religion. Not for nothing was the Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow, and lived to flourish...
...Clergy Roused. Since avowed national trafficking in even "socalled vice" moved the English Nonconformist Church Council to issue a protest, publicly stigmatizing Mr. Churchill for "conveying the impression to young people that the state not only tolerates but sanctions betting...
...Cooperation, they argue, is a condition of life in civilized communities. When a person fails to conform to the standards of society and gives the minimum amount of cooperation, as required by the criminal law, the community for its own protection, must impose the prescribed penalties, if such a nonconformist has the mentality to understand what Society expects of him. Definitions of legal insanity are designed to state the lack of mental capacity which one must display before not being held fully responsible for criminal behavior. What is the social value of mental tests, applied after the commission...
...invitation has been extended to the Rev. R. W. Dale, a distinguished Nonconformist minister of Birmingham, England, to deliver the next series of Lyman Beecher lectures in the Theological Seminary...