Word: slater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anglican Slater, 63, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has spent 17 years in the Far East and is canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, the center is an old dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars...
...seek to understand each other's faiths. Funds for the center were supplied by an estate that insists on anonymity-the same donor who last year endowed Harvard's first professorship in world religions. And the man who occupies that chair-Canada's topflight Theologian Robert Slater-will head the new center...
...structure will "serve a number of related purposes," according to the Rev. Robert H. L. Slater, professor of World Religions and director of the Center. Chief among these will be discussion, since the anonymous grant establishing the Center called for "sympathetic study of the religions of the world" so that each student "may gain a clear insight and a firmer faith in the truth of his own religion...
Both foreign and American students will live in the building, plans for which include suites for 11 married and visiting scholars, as well as eight apartments for unmarried students. Most of the people at the Center, according to the Rev. Slater, will study at the Divinity School under a new Ph.D. program in the History and Philosophy of Religions...
...This pilot program has proved the value of students living together," Slater commented. Using a house at 38 Huron Ave., the four scholars, plus a graduate of the a Divinity School, have held several informal discussions on religion...