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Calling Episcopalians nominal Christians is like the pot calling the kettle black. How many of today's Presbyterians would be considered nominal, if not heretical, by their precursor, John Calvin? It is also hard to understand how he can call a church which runs schools, hospitals, retreat houses, etc., out of all proportion to their small numbers, and also provides a Sacrament for those who feel the need of it, uninterested in moral problems...
...State University, Buck has worked in Cambridge since 1923, and until his administrative appointment in 1945, he has been a historian, specializing in the South of the Civil War. In his first year at Cambridge, President Lowell selected Buck to be resident tutor in Straus Hall. Buck became a precursor of the sweeping change that was yet to come--institution of House tutorial and Senior Tutors. Later Lowell appointed him librarian in Dunster House, and the future Provost immediately set to work stocking the new Dunster library. It was from his work in Dunster that Buck learned to appreciate...
...even the zestful playing of Lewin and Shapiro could rescue Beethoven's Sonata No.2 from its inherent dullness. Musicologist Paul Schauffler has called this an "optimistic" sonata, but to me it seems a very unpromising precursor of works like the Spring and Krentzer Sonatas. In theme and harmony it sounds, at its best, like bad Mozart...
...course to the State Department has followed a different route from that of Hay, Root, or Hughes, who had a firm belief in a set of established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson...
Bearded, 15th Century Nicolas de Flue is worshiped by all Switzerland as a national hero, and was regarded by Luther and Zwingli as a precursor of the Reformation. Last week, with trumpets, processions, floodlights and a pontifical High Mass, he became a Roman Catholic saint...