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Presiding Bishop John E. Hines pronounced the convention one of the most constructive in years. The delegates approved a report of a commission headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey, calling for a reform in the training of Episcopal clergymen. Also adopted was the Presiding Bishop's $3,000,000-a-year program to aid urban Negroes-which Hines called a major step toward meeting the crises of the cities...
...were compulsory. At Washington's Howard University, even though retiring President James M. Nabrit Jr., 67, praised "the spirit of revolt" at a convocation, more than 100 students walked out to protest his dismissal of 23 faculty and student activists this summer. The militant students cheered Sociology Professor Nathan Hare's declaration that "you got to close this place down...
...interpretation of the law be com plied with. Willful failure to comply is contempt of court, and fines and jail sentences can be imposed. Overuse of the device in the early days of trade unionism made "government by injunction" a burning political issue; by 1930, Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene, in a classic book on the subject, were proposing a new law and writing that "injunctions ought never to become rou tine." Two years later, the Norris-La Guardia Act virtually eliminated them in federal courts, and later Supreme Court rulings eventually curbed state courts as well...
Headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey and Dr. Charles Taylor, former executive director of the American Association of Theological Schools, the committee found a striking lack of quality in Episcopal candidates for the priesthood. Roughly 43% of the 1,042 students at the church's eleven accredited seminaries had college averages of C+ or lower; more than half had come to theology after having tried some other way of life. The quality of the seminaries them selves was also inadequate. The report found that students are overloaded with a bewildering patchwork of courses, and develop little sense of community...
...those who read the July 1966 N.Y. Times advertisement of the ad hoc National Council of Negro Churchmen entitled "Black Power," Nathan Wright's new book has a familiar ring...