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...remaining 60 per cent who answered the poll, including the convert, seem to be orthodox in their faith. To begin with they practice their religion. They also agree with the Church on issues of Catholic doctrine (for instance, they unanimously affirm that "God is just"), yet they vary among themselves on all matters of opinion...
Perhaps the key to a full understanding of these Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who will not affirm the existence of God, considered as a group, lies in the fact that about 85 per cent of them will not deny His existence, either--that is, they are predominantly agnostics who look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept...
...face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen persons), while 35 per cent of the non-believers took the opposite stand in favor of surrender...
...dining hall authorities continually affirm their desire to please the student-customers, their captive patrons. Suggestions from undergraduates are welcome--in fact, Sunday night's blueberry pancakes were suggested by a group of Lowell House members. Other indications of likes and dislikes are considered. "We found the Student Council poll very helpful in determining undergraduate preferences and tastes," Mr. Lane claims. Mutton, which received a very low rating on the poll, has appeared only rarely on menus this year; on the other hand, the more popular entrees have tended to appear with monotonous regularity...
...done, he says, simply by asserting theological truth, or by going back to the Reformation's theme of justification by faith alone. It can only be done by, in effect, driving man to the painful extremity of accepting the ultimate threat confronting his existence, and yet to affirm life in the face of this very threat. "The one thing needed-this is the first and in some sense the last answer I can give-is to be concerned ultimately, unconditionally, infinitely . . . If, in the power and passion of such an ultimate concern, we look at our finite concerns, everything...