Word: brautigum
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Perhaps the most interesting and certainly the most popular Core course is Professor Herman Brautigum's Philosophy and Religion. Brautigum takes magnificent advantage of the opportunity he has to introduce his freshman students to learning. First, he say, he "tries to convince them that the upper middle class orthodoxy they bring to Colgate from, Westchester county is not the only way to look at the world...
...jars them a bit by having them read vicious attacks on capitalistic society by Marx and Archbishop Sheen. Then, the course takes up four ways man has tried to orient himself to the world: the Catholic way (Brautigum calls this "sacramental orientation"), the Protestant view ("Recognizing individual shortcomings"), the Marxist, and the naturalist-materialist orientation, typical of Westchester County and the American middle class. In his attempt to raise questions in student minds, Brautigum has made his course the cornerstone of the freshman year at Colgate...
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