Harvard University announced today, in the wake of the disclosure that at the university’s insistence, a Jewish couple was married in Memorial Church in 1955 by a Protestant Minister with a rabbi standing by, that the edifice may be used hereafter “on certain occasions” for private, non-Christian ceremonies performed by clergy of other religions.
The University acted on recommendations by Dr. George A. Buttrick, chairman of the Board of Preachers, in revising a long-standing policy to have a Protestant clergyman present for marriages or funerals of non-Christians in the church. The church was dedicated in 1932 as a memorial to Harvard war dead.
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