Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conversations about unity" that would bring 19 million American Protestants into one church together will be held this week in Washington among leaders of the Methodist. Episcopal, United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian churches. Not since Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake proposed church union from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960 have churchmen met to discuss the plan's intricacies. This week's meeting is, at best, preparatory, but it may chart the course toward a Protestant summit conference...
President Sachar opts for a secular school "no more Jewish than Princeton is Presbyterian." He well knows that his students "bring a bias with them. It's not exactly anti-God. It's anticlerical." In fact, the Hillel Foundation at Brandeis has only 50 or 60 members, and only the Catholic chapel gets much attendance. Says one senior: "Most students feel that religion is-well, somehow beneath them...
Coach Jack Barnaby expressed satisfaction with the Crimson's play against North Carolina, Duke, Clemson, and Presbyterian College and pointed to the decisive win over Army as an indication of the team's progress. Harvard took all but the second doubles match in straight sets from the Cadets in its first Eastern Intercollegiate Conference contest...
...STEGALL JR. Westminster Presbyterian Church Fort Walton Beach...
...with a treatise on elephants' toes, won the Nobel Prize (together with Britain's Charles T.R. Wilson) at 35 with the discovery that X rays are composed of particles, but despite his steeping in the scientific method clung to a deep religious faith, occasionally preaching from Presbyterian pulpits...