Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander M. Clark '38, Assistant Director of the Office of Student Placement will clear up some erroneous belief about the draft and discuss the advantages of the various services. Following the talk, the meeting will be thrown open to questions. This discussion is no limited to freshmen; anyone interested is invited...
...this physical domination over himself -or his belief in it-that enables Hogan to do things on a golf course that baffle human understanding. At 39, he needs no warm-up tournaments to toughen his nerves and sharpen his game. He just shows up for the big ones, sets the machinery in motion-and wins. Then he drops out of sight again, leaving behind another "miracle" for the Hogan legend...
Lack of central direction has not kept the Churches of Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene colleague of Nichols: "Our growth is phenomenal because our plea is simple...
Contrary to popular belief, teaching is not quiet and unexciting. Harold B. Gores, superintendent of public schools in Newton, emphasized at the career conference on education last night...
Many educators complain young people lack militant beliefs. If that is true, higher education is to blame. We are being robbed of taxes to bring forth a docile set of note-takers in the class room. There is no teaching of an absorbing faith in the things which made our country great. Today's generation--and add to this the parents--is ready to conform, either through fear, conviction, or, more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles...