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Burgess takes his election as an assignment to make his church face up more directly to race-relations problems. He believes that progress in civil rights for the Negro has been "miraculous," but that "of all the institutions, the church has been the least able to adjust to the change in racial atmosphere." The reason: "The church is too much white middleclass, and reflects too much the conservatism of this social and economic group. There is fear that the church might take too rad ical a stand...
Modern Sunday school has attempted to adjust to modern students, whose minds have been honed on improved public schooling. "You can't sit them on a chair and pour it in any more," warns...
...motto of an old-fashioned Sunday-school teacher, recalls A. V. Washburn of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, was: "You sit still while I instill." The modern version might be: "In God we trust that you'll adjust." Sunday schools still struggle, with varying success, to form religious people in a doggedly secular world, but the setting and philosophy are changing fast...
...point in trying to mastermind" the assignment of freshman roommates too much, since the "very nature of this college and of these students means that the 318 girls in the Class of 1966 are already diversified." She added that Radcliffe girls are likely to be people who can adjust to a range of personalities, and who will therefore be able to get along with any roommate...
...example of Dudley House lunches and limit outsiders to a specific, manageable number each hour, a number necessarily different in each dining hall. Students would be required only to sign their names and addresses; the sponsor requirement would be abolished, and the individual dining halls would adjust their finances, as they do now, among themselves...