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...upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last week his weekly published his views on the "organized exploitation . . . the charlatanry of the organized exhibition of sacred things and places'' in "The Unholy Holy Land...
Many a Palestine site is shared among two or more religious sects. The most cherished one, the Holy Sepulchre (of Christ) is tended by Franciscan monks but, by old tradition, has Mohammedan doorkeepers, who used calmly to lock in the meek monks every night. What dismayed Editor Morrison and other members of his cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine...
...sure, wrote Editor Morrison, a guide occasionally "throws in the qualifying clause, 'Tradition says-,' but this interpolation is never emphasized. . . . Consequently the uncritical tourist comes out of Palestine with his mind cluttered with pious superstition." Furthermore: "To have Christianity presented to these tens of thousands of casual sightseers every year in an incredible and repugnant form will have consequences in our own country." Dr. Morrison's suggested remedy: let the Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. which is less Fundamentalist than other Protestant institutions in Palestine, take the lead in "guiding travelers . . . without provoking them to a mood...
Herbert M. Irwin '37, of Port Washington, Long Island, was re-elected President of the Memorial Society at the dinner held Friday evening in Adams House. Morrison C. Haviland '37, of Glens Falls, N. Y. was elected Vice President, Wheeler Sammons, Jr. '37, of Chicago, III., Secretary, and Joseph S. Iseman '37, of New York City, Treasurer...
Milton Machinist '37, Kenneth MacLeish '38, Adolf W. Marburg '37, Henry O. Marcy '37, Richard B. Mather 1G., Daniel W. Meyer '36, Gardner Middlebrook '38, Frederick Miller '37, James L. Morrison '38, John K. Moulton '36, Constantine G. Orfanos 1G., Oglesby Paul '38, John W. Perry '37, Thomas Perry, Jr. '36, Marcy S. Powell 1G., Edward H. Porter '38, David R. Lit '38, M. Victor Leventritt...