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...obligation has been partially fulfilled by the initiation last February of a mammoth program under the direction of the Princeton Council in the Humanities. The program, says Dodds, is "designed to help the humanities keep pace with recent advances in the social and natural sciences. It will tend to correct what might have been an unfortunate imbalance." The program will not actually go into operation until the full $7,000,000 endowment is raised from foundations, but when the money is collected its income will be used to "raise and expand the general level of humanistic education." This will...
Miller also faces a good deal of popular misconception about Williams, "the prophet of religious liberty," and strives to answer and correct it. He ardently denies that the scope of his thought was "social rather than theological," and asserts that Williams came to his final ideas solely because he was originally a Separatist. From that position, and through a peculiar method of Bible interpretation called typology, he came ultimately to the separation of church and state, and to freedom from enforced religion within the church...
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below two correct answers are possible. Write...
...Three of the recent TIME cover personalities shown here are identified by the three groups of statements below. No score for this section, but just for fun, see if you can write in the correct name on the first clue. If not, read the second clue. And don't feel too bad if you have to go on to the third...
...first letter of each correct answer below spells out a ten-letter word that has recently been in the news. Only the last names of people are used. You get one point for each answer and one for the meaning of the word...