Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South India's new church of 1,000,000-odd members sounded to many in the sect-divided U.S. almost like Utopia attained. The U.S. Federal Council of Churches has been struggling all year to hold a conference of its 25 denominations merely to discuss the possibility of doing something about unity...
...members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. But the 1,000,000-odd members of the South India Church are a leaven of unity that is already causing ecumenical stirrings in North India, and beyond. Many clergymen hopefully expect that it will eventually spread to England, Europe...
...Houses. It is around these pivotal facts that thinking on thins to come must revolve. For even at this early date the anticipated demand for February will greatly exceed the supply of rooms available. Although 460 men will graduate or otherwise leave at midyear this will spell only 275-odd housing openings because of the decision of the House Masters to drop back as soon as possible to the "fifty percent above normal" quotas of last Spring. This ruling means that the absorption of the sixteen or twenty men now added to the House rosters will not be considered...
With a near-record, 1400-odd enrollment, the Graduate School of Business Administration enters its fortieth year of operation today as an estimated 720 first-term students register at Baker Library across the Charles...
...last week, but in the next practice lot, out of reach of the flashbulbs, the Harvard team of two and three years hence was running through plays, signal drills and light contact work. Freshman Coach Henry Lamar was busily molding a Class of '51 squad out of the hundred-odd prep-school stars who showed up two weeks ago for their first taste of college football...