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Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, speaking in Memorial Church yesterday morning, said that Congress has the "right and duty" to investigate churches, and Communists cloistered in them "should be found guilty and punished...
...observers even tried to deny that Congress has the right to investigate colleges or anything else it chooses. But several spectators, including Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Unitarian Dr. A. Powell Davies and the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of Washington Cathedral, cried "foul" at the tactics of the investigators. Despite the continuing uproar, Representative Harold H. Velde and his House Un-American Activities Committee went to work...
Both investigations were attacked by Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, member of the University Board of Preachers, as "jeopardizing out freedom and our faith...
...high standards of the terms of his selection can be met, he will not be a dogmatist, but will stand as a teacher as high above his own religion as stands another University Professor, Zechariah Chafee, above the dogmatic liberals. And the selection committee, including as it does Bishops Oxnam and Knox and Dr. Niebuhr, is certainly qualified to find such a man, of he exists...
...help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope: to make the school a stronghold of ecumenical Christian education among the clergy, a means for correcting what President Conant's committee called "religious illiteracy" among undergraduates...