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...Manhattan [TIME, March 12] will embarrass or further prejudice against religion "the modern 'enlightened' but morally sensitive man," let them conduct their own crusade. If they feel that their message is more relevant to the broader social issues of the day, and they are better able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon as Manhattan, let them come out of the editorial sanctuary and tell what they know...
...will constantly present the 'Christian message' to an entire metropolitan center. This is of course a Babylon, whose 'sins' invite the denunciations of any 'prophet.' But the question is whether the prophet is able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon, or to appreciate the virtues of such a vast conglomerate community in which all peoples and racial stocks live in comparative brotherhood...
Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, in announcing the student committee, said it would probably hold hearings next week to discern student as well as faculty opinion on the question. Richard B. Merlo '57 will head the group to be known as the Biochemical Sciences Evaluation Committee...
...interviews with faculty members and local clergymen, the report attempts to determine the proper place of religious instruction in a liberal arts college. "A liberal education," it states "is the education of free men and must teach men how to be free. The free man must be able to discern and evaluate independently, and this is impossible without some basic understanding of ultimate worth. Unless he has conceptions of worth which he has chosen, his judgements will be based on standards imposed from without and he is not free...
...superficial contradiction in the Harvard Report," the committee continues, "in including religious ideals among those to be considered in a liberal education and at the same time opposing religious instruction is easily dissolved. Throughout it is apparent that the Report grapples with the largest problem of leading men to discern and chose good without specifying what the good is. There is no denial of the need for the discussion of religious thought in an education which teaches men to evaluate...