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...Special to the New York Times called my attention to the Editorial in the Harvard CRIMSON which ". . . . attacked the university corporation for permitting the name of a German chaplain to appear on a memorial to the 697 students, alumni, and faculty who died in World...
...that editorial could not have been present at the dedication of the memorial. He would have known that the blunder did not lie in the addition of the name of the German soldier, but in the fact, which must have shocked many people that Sunday morning, that the German chaplain's name carried the totally irrelevant addition "enemy casualty." It might have been appropriate to omit the name altogether, but anyone who heard the hymns, readings, prayers and sermon that morning would have noted the great contradiction between the meanings and any inscription which would remind those dedicating the memorial...
...proud that its congregation put up the first building for Protestant worship in the young capital city. It is proud that seven Presidents of the U.S.† worshiped there. It is proud of its great growth during the years of World War II, when the late Peter Marshall,- chaplain of the U.S. Senate, was pastor. When the congregation decided after the war to build a larger church, they decided to buck the trend toward residential areas and stay right where they were, about five minutes' walk from the White House...
Question of Distribution. Norfolk had never encountered anything quite like Oxford before, and by 6:30 p.m. the big auditorium was packed with 400 convicts, all staring fixedly at their two guests. After a few remarks by the chaplain ("I wish this could be a home & home debate"), Charlie the Program Chairman (armed robbery) introduced the speakers, and Francis the Timekeeper (housebreaking) started his stop watch. The question of the evening: "Resolved that this house recognize the need for a free national health service." First speaker for the affirmative: Oxford's Richard Taverne...
When he graduated at 25, Pardue went back to Chicago, became chaplain of the Cook County juvenile court, the morgue and the insane asylum, and assistant chaplain of the county jail. In 1926 he got his first parish, at Hibbing, Minn., and a clearer notion of his life work. The Episcopal church at Hibbing, he found, paid plenty of attention "to the respectable people in the community, but they didn't think very much about the people who lived in the tar-paper shacks...