Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing, he has certainly oversimplified the Harvard tradition. There have been many Christian traditions at Harvard. The University's religious commitment has expanded form a narrow Calvinism to the lack of commitment which represents the modern Harvard. Since the late nineteenth century, Harvard's religious tradition has been based upon a minimal moral faith and an abstract principle called "Veritas." The tradition has been inclusive rather than exclusive, one of multiplicity rather than conformity...
...need assent is the tradition of scholarship. For President Pusey, as for many others, it might seem absurd for a man to be "ultimately concerned" merely with scholarship. But Harvard is not an individual. It is a corporate entity deriving its strength from the fact that its members agree upon a common purpose--the pursuit of their individual visions of truth wherever these may lead. For many, perhaps for most, the search leads to the Christian Revelation of God. But that is the concern not of the University, but of individual teachers and students...
...this situation it is incumbent upon the President to avoid committing Harvard to any official religious belief, including his own. Harvard's greatness today depends on its lack of institutional commitment to any faith but faith in the scholarly ideal and in the universality implicit in such an ideal...
...Once upon a time, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland went to a particularly dull houseparty. Conversation dragged and the afternoon appeared to be a total loss. When he returned, some friends asked him whether or not he had enjoyed himself. "I should have been bored," Professor Copeland replied, "had I not been there myself...
...given to bigotry for his alleged anti-Semitic views in the Memorial Church controversy. Yet nothing could be farther from what this man represents. Dr. Buttrick has always stood for tolerance and brotherhood among all religious faiths. On Brotherhood Day, February 24, 1944, Columbia University recognized this by conferring upon him, as a representative of the Protestant faith, and two other men, as representatives of the Catholic and of the Jewish faiths, their highest honor: Doctor of Sacred Theology, in recognition of "the growing spirit of cooperation among the religious faiths...