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...fact is that the honorable teacher has a creed, and cannot, if he tries, withhold its influence...The rightful freedom of minds, the maxims of logic and experimental proof, of intellectual honesty, of tolerance and persuasion, are themselves values. Together with all their personal and social implications they constitute a body of indoctrination to which no objection can consistently be raised. Here, I believe, is the reconciliation of the teacher's scruples with moral and political education. Let him look to the ground on which he repudiates indoctrination. If he is against it, it is because, fundamentally...
...occasion of Becher's 60th birthday last May, Mann wrote him: "I love and honor in Johannes R. Becher the man-this deeply stirred heart ... an ethos of continuity which predestines him emotionally to be a Communist and which politically has become a Communist creed. His Communism has positively patriotic color; as a matter of fact, it fulfills itself in patriotism . . . The day will come when all the German people will thank...
Forty students shewed up for the dedication of the Eliot House Chapel last night at 11 p.m. Francis Huntington '53, of Winthrop House, conducted the service, which included a general confessional, Bible reading, and the Apostle's Creed...
Back in 1943, "Dutch" Kindelberger [board chairman of North American Aviation Co.] did a piece on this subject entitled, "The Enemy Designs Our Warplanes," concluding with a remark which is the creed for our place. It is: "When we're through making changes, we're through...
This theological freewheeling has brought Dr. Kaplan in conflict with Orthodox rabbis. In 1945 he brought out a new Sabbath prayer book, with the Orthodox prayer book's creed changed to a "criteria of loyalties," emphasizing the congregation's spiritual needs rather than the articles of faith which they must believe. (The old prayer book: "I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher is true, and that -he was chief of prophets." Dr. Kaplan's prayer book: "We want the synagogue to enable us to worship God in sincerity and in truth.") Horrified...