Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monthly magazine, Shop, was published. This was designed to reflect "serious thinking at Radcliffe, chiefly in connection with courses, but also in regard to important questions of the day, political, social, and artistic." It contained about two or three essays in each issue, with such titles as "The Concept of Personality," and "A Comparison of the Political Theories of Dante and Machiavelli." Shop only lasted a year; its demise was owed either to a lack of cash or perhaps of serious thinking...
...time is not so far off as one might think, but the idea of machines for teaching brings up many problems not noticed at first glance. Grading systems would probably have to be greatly revised; the entire concept of education by coercion, motivation, threat and sweat would have to be reexamined; and the application of scientific principles to secondary education would have to be considered. Professor Skinner himself has said: "In the light of our present knowledge a school system must be called a failure if it cannot induce students to learn except by threatening them not to learn...
...Newbigin asserted that certain metaphysical and ethical problems inherent in the Election doctrine make it offensive to Christians. The concept of the People of God is not an "eschatological expectation," he explained, but the people are the new humanity, the people whose Church is the clue to the meaning of world history...
...third aspect of the "new reality" "expresses the dual character of the Gospel, the having come and the anticipated coming. The concept of the "Pilgrim People," journeying towards a great and divine goal, expresses the dualism of the Gospel and its teachings...
...Monday's issue Rev. Newbigin was mistakenly reported to have called for a return to a cyclical historical concept. It was the opposite idea, that of purposive change, which he declared based in the Christian faith and grounded in Western culture. The CRIMSON regrets the error...