Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audacity of speculation and creation alone, it may be said, lies the salvation of a university. Its maintenance and its organization demand patterns of thought and patterns of life, but it is only in the destruction of these patterns that a university can preserve vitality or realize progress. Such destruction demands as its major requisite a willingness on the part of the student to apply some sort of critical faculty to the patterns which are created for him. Even a faculty of iconoclasts may labor in vain, if its students are afraid to doubt...
...Bristled with disapproval at the Government's refusal to announce its attitude toward the creation of additional League Council seats. (See LEAGUE.) The League of Nations Parliamentary Committee of the House (which represents all parties) unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the admission of any nation other than Germany to a permanent Council seat, at present...
...likewise introduced an extravagant offshoot of the Boy Scouts into Siam and assisted Queen Lakshmi in the creation of Siamese Girl Guides and the Royal Wild Tiger Corps. Since Rama's father, King Chulalongkorn, had left behind him 600 widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters, it was considered highly scandalous that Rama IV had no sons...
...pattern for these Catholic retreats is Mount Manresa, on Staten Island. For years this lay-monastery has provided spiritual haven for the harassed souls of business men. But already a Philadelphia institution, the Men of Malvern, has perhaps surpassed it in favor. The Philadelphians have consecrated to spiritual re-creation 100 acres just outside the city. They have improved a choice suburban landscape with a magnificent chapel, a large comfortable retreat house. The genius of inauguration was supplied by Father Terence Shealy, first director of retreats...
...question for the coming debate is regarded by the contestants and the coaches of the teams as the most timely of the year. The subject is receiving a great deal of comment in periodicals following the recent Episcopal movement and the agitation in Congress for the creation of a separate enforcement department for the prohibition amendment. The University debaters are now tied for first place with the Yale and Dartmouth squads...