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Word: bergethon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...their search for solid grounds, the students have not surrendered their right to criticize, nor do they seem any more susceptible than their parents to blind acceptance of dogma. As a matter of fact, says Kaare Roald Bergethon, dean of the college at Brown University, the students seem so tolerant of the beliefs of others that "if I had seen this same phenomenon in the '30s, I would have thought it was indifference, but today I know it isn't." This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Search | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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