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...Harvard creed seems to be a form of temperate agnosticism--belief in a process of questioning with truth ever at the end of the corridor, yet in this case a process which does not question its own value, even though for the individual the corridor has no end but death...
Followers of this agnostic creed cannot understand the Church and why it would hesitate to send Catholics to such schools as Harvard. They feel this is dishonesty, intellectual cowardice, a policy founded on fear and lacking all respectability. The Church, for its part, is primarily interested in men's salvation; it exists as a means towards salvation, and it believes close contact with the Church almost essential for every man who wants to be saved. The individual makes his own choice concerning Harvard, but he chooses with knowledge of his spiritual obligations as a member of the Church--one obligation...
...square-lawyer Matthews, angel of the Gas House. Defending his friends (and his investment, such as it is), he argued that the beatniks were really harmless. "The fundamental rule," said he, "is 'Thou shall not bug [disturb] thy neighbor.' And we have three dirty words: race, creed and color. I'm not going to regulate people's mores . . . not even the winos'." As for the sound of the bongos, Matthews confessed that he was helpless to stop it. "Sure bongo drums are loud, but my friends tell me that a bongo...
...staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house near the University of Chicago. He founded "Universities of Islam" in Chicago and Detroit (the latter accredited by the local school board through the ninth grade) to teach his dogma to children and teenagers. Sample from his official temple creed: "There is no good in white men. All are the children of the devil...