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Professor Fleming has preserved the original text and index complete, so that we may know exactly what Loeb said and what he thought worthy of reference. Fleming has also supplied notes at the end of each chapter to bring the reader up to date on technical material. Such notes take the edge off Loeb's scientific dogmatism when, as is often the case, he is wrong...
...diminished the sum of human freedom. Joining the debate with revolutionary fervor, Robert Roswell Palmer, a specialist in 18th century France who is on the faculty of St. Louis' Washington University, plumps unequivocally for the Revolution, charging that its detractors have besmirched an "inevitable" and largely admirable chapter of history...
Inter-Varsity aims to keep alive the youthful faith of young Christians on secular campuses, introduce the nominal believer to the "living personality" of Jesus, and persuade at least a few chapter members to join foreign missions. The fellowship has a full-time adult staff of 105, including 70 traveling "coaches" who help out the individual chapters. Members usually meet once a week for prayer and Bible study, spend many of their off-duty hours trying to convert fellow students. At the University of Illinois, for example, the Inter-Varsity chapter sends a welcoming letter to freshmen, sponsors lectures...
Inter-Varsity evangelists are, of course, suspect to many of their quizzical college contemporaries, and John Worden, head of the University of Wisconsin chapter, admits: "In numerical terms, we don't make very many converts." One reason, suggest Protestants critical of the movement, may be that Inter-Varsity is too narrowly and introspectively concerned with personal behavior. In answer, Inter-Varsity leaders argue that the fellowship's Bible-centered brand of discipline uniquely equips young Christians to witness for Christ in their post-college jobs. "We train a man to be a football player," says Alexander, "and then...
David M. Kotz '65, president of the Harvard chapter of SDS, said last night that the details about where the demonstrators will march and whether they will contact congressmen have not yet been worked out. He added, however, that Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Ernest Gruenning (D-Alaska), both critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam have been invited to speak...