An observer to Mr. Meredith (4 October 1962)

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De Hollander Published a Long Report on the Meeting of the Classis of Holland That Met in Holland on September 3 and 4

The Masonic controversy was now underway. De Hollander published a long report on the meeting of the Classis of Holland that met in Holland on September 3 and 4. Several ministers were quoted: [Peter?] de Pree, Jacob van der Meulen, H. Uiterwijk, Jan Broek, Chr. Van der Veen, John van der Meulen, and Dr. Philip Phelps. De Pree quoted Dr. Albertus C. Van Raalte who spoke to the masonry issue at a classis meeting six years ago: Do not make foolish decisions, but try to protect what we have.\u27 The Rev. Van Raalte then proposed a resolution in which he urged First Church to work individually on the Freemasons in their church. Elder Keppel made it clear that the permission to use the sanctuary of First Reformed Church was allowed but the consistory did not invite Edmond Ronayne to speak.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1870s/1308/thumbnail.jp

Entrepreneurial sons, patriarchy and the Colonels' experiment in Thessaly, rural Greece

Existing studies within the field of institutional entrepreneurship explore how entrepreneurs influence change in economic institutions. This paper turns the attention of scholarly inquiry on the antecedents of deinstitutionalization and more specifically, the influence of entrepreneurship in shaping social institutions such as patriarchy. The paper draws from the findings of ethnographic work in two Greek lowland village communities during the military Dictatorship (1967–1974). Paradoxically this era associated with the spread of mechanization, cheap credit, revaluation of labour and clear means-ends relations, signalled entrepreneurial sons’ individuated dissent and activism who were now able to question the Patriarch’s authority, recognize opportunities and act as unintentional agents of deinstitutionalization. A ‘different’ model of institutional change is presented here, where politics intersects with entrepreneurs, in changing social institutions. This model discusses the external drivers of institutional atrophy and how handling dissensus (and its varieties over historical time) is instrumental in enabling institutional entrepreneurship