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Hitler's Monument. Today Worms and all of Germany (West and East) are as Hitler intended, largely judenfrei-free of Jews. Before the advent of the Third Reich, Jews numbered 760,000 in a nation of 66 million; German life and art were immeasurably enriched by the work of such Jews as Physicist Albert Einstein and Composer Kurt Weill. Thousands fled the Nazis; thousands more died in the concentration camps. There are now no more than 30,000 Jews-including some 5,000 who escaped from Eastern Europe-among West Germany's 55 million people, and only...
...Washington's Holy Comforter Church uses plain chant at all his Sunday services; about half of his congregation genuflect. Even in denominations where Communion is still rare (such as the Congregational), ministers have restored the ecclesiastical calendar to use, preaching on themes appropriate to the seasons of Lent, Advent or Pentecost...
...Hudson's view, Second Church had strayed from the narrow and uncomfortable Calvinistic path. It did not observe Lent or Advent. The service included no processional, no responsive reading-rarely even the Apostles' Creed. Most of the members had no part in running the church. Says Hudson: "It was a class church, controlled by the money forces of a few people who held the purse strings, held the offices, masterminded...
Monro pointed out that in previous years, particularly before the advent of the House system, a large percentage of the College commuted. "If things went on this way for 300 years, it's hard to say that the last 25 years prove there will be few commuters from now on," Monro said...
...went. Whatever its real intentions may be, the Administration is making it increasingly hard for the Band to remain in existence. It is killing off the last College organization largely dedicated to having fun. With the advent of a ferocious academicism, administrators and even students have forgotten that spoofing authority, raiding girls' colleges, and generally raising hell can be a good and integral part of the undergraduate experience. It would be sad indeed to see the Harvard Band, the last practitioner of the dying art of being in undergraduate, wither away...