Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives in the barest of shacks in the worst of Santiago's slums, where 180,000 people live, and who by sharing the lot of the poor has made .the church's presence felt in a community...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union will sponsor a sale of buttons at Harvard to raise money for sending unemployed Negroes to the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
...turns out, is to discourage "discussion type clubs" such as the Socialist Club, or the Young Americans for Freedom, or for that matter the Young Democrats or Young Republicans. Such clubs are controversial and do not provide the proper kind of "student participation." They are particularly unwelcome when they sponsor speakers from outside the University, as this affords "a platform for all kinds of views" with which the Summer School might not agree. Furthermore, in the opinion of the Summer School administration, such views might be "unrepresentative," because only groups whose ideological fervor is especially strong are likely to take...
Other summer schools give their students a taste of the local customs. Wyoming University, for example, holds a mammoth buffalo barbeque. Certainly Harvard, in tradition-laden Massachusetts, can do as well. We propose, as a start, that the School sponsor a giant clam-bake at one of the local beaches. Such an event would be more than nourishing: a far better mixer than the Continental ballroom or a Yard Punch, it would make the heat much easier to take...
...more than 150 Catholic and Protestant churchmen. Dean Miller called the Colloquium a "superb success," and saw in its format of public lectures and panel discussions "a method of introducing into our School a dialogue with many different fields." Among the colloquia which he suggested the Divinity School might sponsor were a symposium on contemporary business ethics, a discussion of the relationship between ministers and psychiatrists, and an examination of the theological significance of modern novels...