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Rutgers University Eudora Welty, Litt.D., writer. You have confirmed our instinctive knowledge that while our battles are all ultimately "losing battles," it is in them that we affirm the mixture of folly and dignity that makes us human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 2 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...hope that the combination of such clearly-stated goals and a renewed sense of common purpose in the Faculty will produce a new vision of what a Harvard education ought to be--a program that would enable the University to prepare leaders for the 21st century, and to re-affirm its position at the forefront of higher education...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Teacups in the Faculty Room | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...America's children, rich and well-off as well as poor, in the hope that some day, one day soon, all boys and girls everywhere in the world will have a decent chance to survive, grow, and affirm themselves as human beings...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: How the Two Halves Live | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

...from the real world, so Lee became a compulsive liar and profoundly distrustful, like his mother. As McMillan points out, his personality made him an unlikely recruit in an assassination plot that would require accepting orders, obeying plans and working with coconspirators. Instead, she believes he acted alone to affirm his uniqueness the only way he knew how-by violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Making of an Assassin | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...comments. First of all, I know of no one in the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) who would claim that our group comprises all of the Christians at Harvard. The Church is not bound by any single denomination, much less by a single undergraduate organization, and I affirm the right of my brothers and sisters in Christ to call themselves Christians regardless of whether or not they attend HRCF meetings. Second, not all of us would characterize ourselves as fundamentalists. It is a loaded term and connotes not only extreme Biblical literalism but also political conservatism, neither of which many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fundamentally Outstanding | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

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