Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Torraco says schools such as Harvard allow people to "break through stereotypes." He adds, "To live with students from other religious backgrounds is a challenge you won't get in a denominational school. In a Catholic seminary, for example, everybody's celibate. You're surrounded by these people, so it's sort of easy to assume the whole world is celibate. But as a priest, I'm not going to be dealing with a celibate parish...
...fewer Catholics enter religious orders, the Church may have to allow lay men and women coming out of schools like Harvard to assume a larger ministerial role. Last October, Harvard and Yale Divinity Schools sponsored a conference on the training of Roman Catholics for professional leadership in the Church, and have scheduled another such conference for this spring. As Terraco says, the full implications of the trend have yet to appear, but for the students involved, attending non-denominational schools provides "a good way to round off your ecumenical view...
...Radcliffe Forum will launch a pilot "externship" program during spring break that will allow female undergraduates to explore career options while working with alumnae...
...convention voted to allow representatives to serve for two academic terms with elections for upperclassmen in the spring, while freshmen will serve for only one term, running for positions in the assembly in the fall and again at the start of the spring semester...
...acknowledge the fact that economic forces in France are not yet static and that the old justifications for capitalism are losing their applicability. As the ineluctable economic law of increasing returns to scale mandates larger corporations and more monopolies in the name of efficiency, it seems increasingly unreasonable to allow so much power and responsibility to rest in the hands of relatively few men motivated by a quest for money...