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Pious Philadelphia is the home of an Episcopalian whose church, St. Luke & The Epiphany, is best known as "Dr. Steele's Church." A onetime mathematics teacher, Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele, 62, three years ago resigned as active rector of St. Luke & The Epiphany after nearly 20 years service in one of the richest parishes in the diocese. However, Dr. Steele is still Rector Emeritus and he is still in active charge of an active mind...
Since his retirement, the Rector Emeritus of "Dr. Steele's Church" has occasionally performed a funeral or marriage service but has seldom been seen worshipping in his own or any other church. Last week Dr. Steele indicated his present attitude toward worship in a press statement which set conservative Episcopalians on their ears. Instead of 40 days of fasting during Lent, declared this pastor, one Holy Week is plenty...
...speak for itself. Famed Classicist Gilbert Murray summed up the opinion of many a don: "Perfectly monstrous!" Last week Oxford with graceful malice planned to send to Germany not a delegate but an address "extolling the greatness of German learning in the past." Hopping mad when only Cambridge accepted, Rector Magnificus Groh belatedly withdrew the rest of his British invitations...
Last week Rector Groh's invitations had reached the U. S. Officially Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...