Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surface it is a small matter which has brought the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans and the Orthodox (Russian and Greek) Churches together this week. It is the matter of the calendar. Representatives of the Pope, of the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Ecumenical Patriarch are sitting together at Geneva for the first time since 1453. All three Churches are now deciding whether they can adopt a fixed date for Easter...
...certainly no aid to these conditions to have the President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America start a drive for an Orthodox Jewish College in New York. Such sectionalism, such isolation from the commonwealth is to be commended neither among the Jews, nor among the Catholics in their Catholic colleges, nor in Episcopalian or any other denominational Institutions. For such institutions run, flatly counter to the ideal of American citizenship, of giving all the population America's heritage of traditions and America's purposes...
...direct contrast to this is the situation at most other colleges, even those whom Harvard men are wont to believe most like their own University. Yale and, even more clearly Princeton and Dartmouth, regard minor sports from a point of view that is entirely foreign to the orthodox Harvard undergraduate; the latest news from New Haven only serves once more to emphasize the popularity of minor sports in other centers As a result of all this, these other colleges are prominent in those very sports, which, to an extreme devotee of athletic success, have long been a reproach...
...Methodist Bishops had officially offered support to the Living Church, or reorganized Russian Church, they would have directly opposed the attitude taken by the American Protestant Episcopal churches. The Episcopalians have favored that faction of the Russian Orthodox Church which upheld Patriarch Tikhon whom the other faction, or Living Church, unfrocked...
...This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite are shocked to contemplate the masses absorbing history or what not without effort or reference to authentic written texts. It is sometimes even argued that such substitutes for real education will eventually supplant the orthodox methods, and that everything will be simplified, condensed and given out in the popular "tabloid" form...