Word: cathedras
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Subscriber Muehlenbeck is right. TIME'S editor of RELIGION knew that certain Roman priests and professors had been excommunicated for their adherence to the Old Catholic tenets. He glossed over the fact that the many minority bishops disagreeing with the 1870 Council's doctrine of ex-cathedra infallibility had been whipped into line...
...pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
...about by a mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical"? Is it not a cardinal prerequisite for any sort of constructive thinking to ascertain the facts and not reach a decision before that has been accomplished? It is easy of course to pronounce our ex cathedra judgments in a case, if we can presuppose the existence of certain facts a, b, and c. But is it not a brutum fulmen and a perversion of college thinking to pronounce judgments in a concrete case like the Greek executions where the facts at least...
...received a decided set-back, and the fate of self-government for students and of this first quasi declaration of independence of theirs hangs trembling in the balance. A special correspondent of the HERALD, at Champaign, writes as follows, speaking, as will be seen, to a certain extent, ex cathedra: "I can afford the HERALD an account of our college government. In the first place, let me say that my only connection with the government has been as a member of the senate, and in that capacity I have cast an opposition vote. In other words, I am an opponent...
...take each department, and try to point them out to me. No college in the country has conditions so favorable to the strong influence of an instructor's character, provided it exert itself at all, as Harvard. No longer can a professor make himself felt here by utterances ex cathedra; for, unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general...