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...Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, President of Boston College, will present three honorary degrees Saturday. Pusey will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. The Very Reverend Edward B. Bunn, President of Georgetown University, and Lady Barbara Ward Jackson, British economist and author, will also be honored...
...They claim that nothing is more irritating than being asked: "How do you like America?" They seek not superficial cordiality but a few genuine American companions with whom they can discuss the very problems of adjustment which housing and academic tensions create. Of the many students encountered by the Reverend Reginald Smart of the International Ministry, "not more than one quarter have any kind of real friendship with any American...
...Club occasionally features big name out-of-town performers like Doc Watson, Ralph Rinzler and John Herald of the Greenbriar Boys, Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis and Mike Seeger of the New Lost City Ramblers...
...Thomas Campbell, a dissident Presbyterian minister from western Pennsylvania, founded a new "Christian Association" to bring the church back to the practices of New Testament times. The Campbellites eventually split into liberal and conservative camps over such issues as the right of pastors to use the title reverend and the introduction of organ music in church services. In 1906 the conservatives reported separately in a U.S. religious census as members of the Churches of Christ; the liberals kept the title that Campbell applied to his followers, Disciples of Christ...
...settlement of Boston; it made a worthy estate for one of the American colonies' worthiest citizens. Samuel Maverick was "a young man of means and education in his twenty-second year" when he arrived in Massachusetts three years after the landing of the Mayflower. The son of the Reverend John Maverick of Exeter, England, often called "the godly Mr. Maverick," he had been appointed a royal commissioner for the Massachusetts settlements. As a strict Episcopalian, he often upset the Puritans of Boston and the other diverse communities and was a frequent antagonist of John Winthrop...