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...Sewanee, Tenn., eight faculty members of the University of the South (including the dean and five members of the Theological School faculty, the university chaplain and the head of the college religion department) threatened to resign over their trustees' decision not to admit Negro seminarians. The trustees, representing 22 Southern Protestant Episcopal dioceses, argued that admission of Negroes would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian...
...Munich in 1917, King Ludwig III still sat on his shadow-throne in Bavaria and the old order of Europe, if crumbling, was not yet gone. Archbishop Faulhaber reached his new archdiocese from the trenches of Germany's Western Front: he had gone to war as a chaplain in 1914, although he was already 45, a bishop and a celebrated Biblical scholar. He was the first German prelate to win the Iron Cross...
...ordained an Anglican priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
...With $444 incampus traffic fines paid by faculty members, Indiana University added a prize to its historical library: the journal kept by Chaplain A. Y. Humphreys of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812. Wrote the chaplain: "The last bone of fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...
...Reverend Leslie T. Pennington, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, will be preacher for the Baccalaureate Service. The Reverend Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, is chaplain for the event...