Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of New College's 21 trustees are influential laymen, such as Oklahoma Banker William Whiteman Jr. and President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service. Only five trustees are ministers. Says one of them, the Rev. Howard E. Spragg, treasurer of the Board of Home Missions: "Church control of institutions of higher learning always results in inferior education...
...brilliant idea," said the Rev. Newell Wallbank of St. Bartholomew the Great last week. In nine years since the London Guild Church Act was passed, the church has come alive in the City. Today some City churches have larger congregations five days a week than many a country church sees of a Sunday. Pavement posters and office notice boards attract City workers to concerts and choir practice, discussion groups and short straight services. "I don't often attend actual services," said one office worker last week, "but I sometimes go into a church on my way back from lunch...
...fashioned custom of sending flowers to funerals, increasingly supplanted by a terse "Please Omit Flowers" in a death notice, is something worth preserving, thinks the Rev. W. Carter Merbreier, 34, of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. In this month's pastoral letter to his flock, he pleaded eloquently for flowers-at his own funeral, in any case...
What do executives themselves think of the ethical climate of U.S. business these days? The answer, as reported in a soul-baring survey of 1,700 businessmen by the Rev. Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., a doctoral student at the Harvard Business School: Not much...
...Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...