Words & Works

In Wake Forest, N.C., at the last commencement of Southern Baptist Wake Forest College before it moves to a brand-new campus at Winston-Salem, N.C., retiring Language Professor Hubert Mc-Neill Poteat told the graduating class that "we have in our Baptist ranks more than our share of bigots. Moreover, they have always had, and now have, their scouts and sleuths and spies on this campus, armed with little notebooks in which they diligently scribble comments on the utterances of their professors, that they may presently pass them on to our self-appointed Baptist Popes, cardinals and bishops."

The Rev. John F. Long, S.J., first Jesuit to be trained in the Roman Catholic Russian Rite in the U.S., will be ordained this week at Fordham University. The Russian Rite is a section of the Oriental Rite, one of the two great branches of Roman Catholic liturgy (the other is called the Latin Rite), which follows closely the liturgical pattern of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Fellowship for Social Justice of the American Unitarian Association, meeting in Boston, awarded its Holmes Weatherly Award for contributions to social progress to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and leader of the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala.

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