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Before the Full Synod of the Convocation of York, the Most Reverend and Right .Honorable Cyril Forster Gar-bett spoke his liberal, 71-year-old mind. His subject: the marriage of Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Britain's tall, second-ranking prelate found nothing good in the conditions imposed by the Roman church on such unions...
...Harvard's alumni, besides being the main source of its endowment, have the ultimate control of the university-at least in constitutional theory. The 62,567 alumni elect 30 of their number for staggered, six-year terms to membership in the inspecting body, officially called "The Honorable and Reverend, the Board of Overseers" (originally they were all clergymen). The Overseers meet eight times a year, to approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts' Senator Leverett...
Professor Harrison Harley of Simmons College will take on the future of Liberalism; Otis Hood, chairman of the New England Communist Party, on that of Communism; and Reverend Fletcher of Tufts Theological Seminary, on religious progress. Wendell Furry, associate professor of Physics and tutor in the Department of Physics, will serve as chairman of the forum...
...Reichard; Charles G. Sellers '45; Maurice C. Benewitz '47, of the Harvard Liberal Union; Wendall H. Furry, professor of Physics and Chairman of the Harvard Teachers Union; Henry Copley Greene, prominent Cambridge citizen; Mrs. Henry Copley Greene, of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions; the Reverend Kenneth DeP. Hughes; and Ben Wollins, attorney...
...Reverend Anarchist. The 100,000 franc ($830) Pléiade Prize went to a 33-year-old Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory...