Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harried hassle over Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey's pro-religion policy at the university (TIME, April 14), the most incendiary charge was that the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, refused in 1955 to permit a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Harvard's Memorial Church. On another occasion, Dr. Buttrick made his position plain: "It is intellectually dishonest for Jewish and Christian marriages to be conducted under the same roof...
...statement from United Ministry given by Rev. Parsons added that the group had always felt welcome at Harvard, and that the controversy "didn't change anything...
Members of the United Ministry to Students in Cambridge expressed general approval of the Corporation's decision to allow marriages of students of all faiths in Memorial Church. "All members were pleased to accept the decision," Rev. E. Spencer Parsons of Old Cambridge Baptist Church and chairman of the organization, said at a meeting yesterday...
...liberal Protestant Christian Century headed its editorial page last week with a blast from the Rev. Charles Duell Kean of Washington's Episcopal Church of the Epiphany against the U.S. Navy for attaching a St. Christopher medal to its successful Vanguard satellite-bearing rocket. "Would it have served just as well." demanded Dr. Kean, "if along with the countdown routine, a man had been assigned at each stage in the process to cross his fingers and say 'Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol...
Another statement on the matter in a distinctly different vein, was made yesterday morning by the Rev. Joseph Barth, minister of King's Chapel, a Unitarian church in Boston attended by many influential friends of the University. Barth, speaking on the Biblical sentence, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd," called upon Memorial Church "to welcome differences into itself... in the method of a covenant among the differing with all to use the chapel in freedom...