Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although final figures are not yet available, 67 voters registered at the Huntington Avenue YMCA in the South End Tuesday night. Mel King, director of South End House, said that in the past new registrants averaged about 60 for a whole week prior to an election...
Several other national groups--the Young Democrats, YMCA, Students for a Democratic Society, National Federation of Catholic College Students, and the Student Christian Movement--have already pledged support, and will attend the New York meeting, Potter said...
...Were the YMCA to label itself the Young Men's Protestant Association, it might be more candid," wrote William J. Whalen, English professor at Indiana's Purdue University and student of Roman Catholic youth. "Forty years ago. the Holy Office warned Catholics against joining or supporting the YMCA, 'an organization which instills indifference and apostasy . . . ' Books on sex and marriage published by the Association Press, the Y's publishing arm, present views on masturbation, premarital intercourse, sterilization, divorce and birth control at obvious variance with Catholic principles." The books' willingness to discuss the pros...
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Dallas and Fort Worth was not about to tell her any such thing, as he slapped down the potent Visitor. He had not the slightest objection, he announced, "to Catholics living at the YMCA or participating in its recreational programs. Of course they should not participate in the religious exercises-any more than we would expect a Baptist to come to our service and kneel and stand up with...
...April a Radcliffe girl on the Crimson discovered that diplomas would be written in English for the first time this year and published the story. Immediately petitions were circulating protesting the change, and, when seniors discovered the new-style diploma looked like what they termed "a YMCA certificate," they yelled louder...