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Heavily concentrated in the upper Midwest, the Brethren are mostly German in national origin, differ in theology and polity from the Methodists only in small detail. Mueller, the son of an irnr migrant pastor, graduated from North Central College in Illinois, entered the ministry in 1921 after teaching high school in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was made a bishop in 1954, and from the council's founding has been one of the guiding forces. He was its first recording secretary, and since 1957 has been a vice president and chairman of its Division of Christian Education. As a member...
Using a third country as a false point of origin is a favorite trick. One German steel firm shipped East German steel to the duty-free port of Antwerp, filed off its origin markings and cleverly forged papers to make it appear as if it came from Belgian mills, from which it could be imported at a low duty within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge...
...call upon Harvard to recognize that the special needs of the time require the College to abandon, for your special case, our long-standing rule that membership in student organizations, as in the College itself, should not be governed in principle by stipulations of race, religion, or national origin...
...have given careful thought to the deeply-felt arguments in your letter, but have reached the conclusion that we cannot grant formal recognition to your Association, or any other student organization, which would restrict its membership as a matter of principle by stipulations of race, religion, or national origin. Formal, deliberate exclusions of this sort would violate the most deeply held principles of the College. You have noted that even though a student organization has an open membership clause in its constitution, it may nonetheless in its elections practice discrimination and exclusions of a sort we profess to abhor...
...leading the defense of convention, such arguments usually have an unstable foundation because of the difficulty of defining their values, such as emotional maturity, healthy eroticism, and so on. It does not take an historian to recall that in our society at any rate, conventional morality has its origin not in social and psychological considerations but in the commandments...