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Memorial Church policy in this matter is the creation of the corporation. In disposing of several appeals, the last in 1949, it has clearly restricted the use of the church, and Dr. Buttrick has merely executed its will. Thus it rests squarely upon the Corporation to redefine ceremonial policy...
This has never, of course, prevented non-Christians from giving the Sunday sermon or speaking at the daily morning services in Appleton Chapel. But Sperry and his successor George A. Buttrick have had to say no to repeated requests for non-Christian marirages or funerals. These have come mostly from Jews; there have been one or two applications for Moslem services...
There has been no basic change in University policy towards non-Christian services in Memorial Church since the Sperry regime. Certainly neither President Pusey nor Dr. Buttrick have instituted new rules or tightened old ones. The controversy today centers not on any policy change in the recent past, but on the question of whether some change is now called...
...idea of commitment, an idea which comes only with the experience of constrasting the quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures of the University's philosophers and social scientists. This is in no way to deny the the great value, within their own area of competency, of these non-religious approaches...
...CRIMSON regrets any allegations of racial anti-Semitism that have been made against Dr. Buttrick as a result of misinterpretations of our articles on the religious controversy. There is no foundation for such charges and no place for them in the present discussion...