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...formidable, ceremonious English Establishment are unlikely to be disillusioned by the sight of the 100th Archbishop, who this week begins a 23-day tour of the U.S. A huge, shambling man, with fierce tufts of white hair and shaggy eyebrows jutting from his massive head, Arthur Michael Ramsey, 57, looks constantly at the ready to don cope and miter for the crowning of a Queen or the intonation of a weighty pronouncement. "When you see him in the Abbey, enrobed and preaching on Christmas, he and the church are one," says one of his vicars. "He is the church...
...Michael Ramsey is also a complex churchman who is facing complex 20th century problems. A Cambridge-trained scholar and theologian, he came to Canterbury with a reputation for both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury...
...some think is almost illusory despite its established position. Although 27 million Englishmen are baptized as Anglicans, fewer than 10 million are confirmed members, and only 3,000,000 are regular communicants. The church is short on priests and short on reform, and after 15 months at Lambeth Palace, Ramsey does not underestimate the seriousness of the plight...
...major problem facing us," he says, "is of religion itself, of promoting religion in a country and a world where people are indifferent to it." For the specific problems, Ramsey has prescribed some solid measures. Through widespread recruitment and expansion of training facilities, the margin of new clergymen over deaths and retirements is slowly beginning to widen; and last week the church got its first fulltime recruiter of clergymen...
Trottenberg asserted that laboratory facilities presently used at Radcliffe's Byerly Hall are rapidly becoming outmoded and "are located too far from the University's natural sciences area." He noted that the University began to give serious consideration to augmenting its laboratory facilities after the report of the Ramsey Committee three years...