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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Christian Education And The Idea of a Religious Revival | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...conveys. It suggests that the science departments huddle together to protect their own, and take a unified stand on questions dealing with General Education. The Committee has not found this reaction from other areas, where courses can always be arranged on an individual basis, and no defensively departmental attitudes appear...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...critical tests of a successful general education program is that of an adequate course in the natural sciences. The difficulties appear to lie partly in the attitude of many scientists, who have been unable to interest themselves in the problem of teaching their subject to the non-scientist...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Jacob Finds That College May Not Influence Values | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...insignificance of course education. It was first open in the spring of 1955, when ten students used it to eliminate one half course in favor of independent study. In succeeding terms the plan was used by 19, 17, and 9 students, while 20 used it this spring. No signs appear of any consistent upward trend, nor of any especially meaningful number using the program...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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