Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Oct. 20 issue, you state that the 89-year-old photograph showing a tall man with a stovepipe hat (supposedly Abraham Lincoln) will "start a historical argument." I doubt it ... You are correct in saying that the photograph was taken at Hanover Junction, Pa., by Mathew B. Brady, the famous Civil War photographer. However, the assumption that it shows Lincoln on the way to Gettysburg is nothing but a railway pressagent's wishful thinking...
...utterly outside human experience" . . . This particular assumption makes it impossible to discuss religion intelligently. If God cannot be approached through reason, there's no point in being reasonable about religion. If religion is simply a matter of emotion (Dr. Tillich's "grace?"), then the Communists are correct when they say that religion is merely souped-up soap opera for the masses...
Last week, "on the basis of information received" from Korea, the Vatican declared Bishop Byrne dead, a victim of the Korean war. If the Vatican conclusion is correct, he is the second Roman Catholic bishop from the U.S. to die in Communist hands. The other, Francis X. Ford, also from Maryknoll, died last February in a prison hospital in Canton...
...ideas that die broke on Packard's planning board which are potentially the most valuable. The best is his plan for speech correction. Right now, the students who take his courses are moderately adequate speakers already. Packard would like to record the speech of every incoming Freshman, single out those with real speech deficiencies, and correct them. Such an idea is not radical--in fact it corresponds to the University's special remedial writing and reading program. Nor is it overly expensive, since it takes no more than a few more plastic recording reels and some man hours...
Republicans are correct, then, when they chirp with their best I Told You So air that McCarthy is a great asset in national politics. That is why we view with alarm...