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...Protestant, as he seems to believe. Harvard supported a Unitarian Church instead, for a significant period in its history, and has in general supported the majority religion of its membership. But at this time, THERE IS NO MAJORITY RELIGION at Harvard. The Protestants who run Memorial Church and who worship in it are a minority religion, just as are the 3000 Jews who make up Harvard's Jewish congregations in the course of a year...
...chaired by Dean Stendahl of the Divinity School made the recommendation that--since Harvard had collected money for a war memorial from both Jews and Christians and had built a Christian church with the money--it should now collect money to build on Harvard land a suitable place of worship for its thousands of Jewish students, as well. Yale provides such a house. Smith and Brown and many other colleges with traditions similar to those of Harvard, or even more Christian, support a Jewish chaplain...
...Kilson's remark that Jews ought to raise more money if they wish to worship at Harvard. The Crimson has recently reported that Harvard has launched a special drive to raise 15 million dollars largely from Jewish alumni. The Jewish alumni are working vigorously to raise this money, and yet the University has announced that NONE OF THIS MONEY will be used to provide the desperately needed space and facilities for Jewish worship at Harvard, although the University will continue to provide space for, and support financially, the Protestant church services...
...Riley agrees with the rest of the Society on one of its most coherent themes--hero worship of Robert Welch. Riley told me that "Mr. Welch was reading Greek and Latin at age 6, knew algebra by 8, went to college at 12." Andrew Lane, a full-time employee who answers Society members' complaints and questions, called Welch "a brilliant man, an historian of the first rank. He read Ridpath's History of the world--that's nine volumes you know--by age 7." My tour guide, Frank Gotch, who had just come from Texas to work with Lane, made...
That separation has meant that public schools don't teach religion, which in turn has brought about a dissociation of Christian (but not Jewish) religion from intellectual endeavor. American Christians, the dean of the Divinity School says, worship more out of "childlike faith" than scholarly piety...