Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized that students wearing armbands have wide ranges of opinion about methods of remedying present world tension. Their sole common belief is in the futility of the current nuclear race...
...hand, Soren Kierkegaard has led a return to the primitive essentials of Christianity by his re-definition of true faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which, is, in short, "absurd." The claim to have gotten "beyond" rational thought is a form of what Russell regards as the arch-vice, intellectual dishonesty. He would probably say that it is patently impossible to argue with someone who insists on Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum est. Such a case needs a psychiatrist...
STUNG by criticism, progressive educationists defended their belief in teaching according to "life purposes," and blasted back at their critics. Two questioned the teaching of foreign languages, another insisted that "adjustment" is more important than "rote learning." A letter from the National Association of Secondary-School Principals called its 16,500 members to arms and, among other things, asked them to consider discontinuing school subscriptions to TIME and LIFE. See EDUCATION, Back Talk and The Best Defense...
...members agree to disagree. One important area in which such diversity is essential is the realm of religious opinion; in a community of scholars, Church and University, like Church and State, are best separated. Such a separation does not imply abandoning of religious conviction. Instead it affirms a belief that men of all faiths can work together more effectively when all are treated as equal than when some are welcome while others are merely tolerated...
...this situation it is incumbent upon the President to avoid committing Harvard to any official religious belief, including his own. Harvard's greatness today depends on its lack of institutional commitment to any faith but faith in the scholarly ideal and in the universality implicit in such an ideal...