Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject, delivery, impartiality, and other qualifications a teacher must have, the Board of Regents will investigate the company he keeps. In some cases where teaching involves interpretation of current affairs, economics, history and so forth, the teacher's beliefs may be important: no one committed to any extreme dogma is competent to teach such subjects. But this is not the rationale for the Feinberg Law. The Board of Regents will apply the guilt by membership theory to all teachers, whether it is relevant to their competency or not. So much for standards, then; there are deeper faults...
...University's general tendency to a negative attitude toward a religious dogma is criticized in a letter in this week's Alumni Bulletin by John R. Swanton...
Hoping that complaisant humanists will not continue to ignore dogma, Swanton goes on to say: "the whole process of existence would be pointless without a cosmic viewpoint on the seen and unseen." He warns, however, that teachers who bring up these issues must be "careful in their presentation and careful of their own lives...
...warmly with the judges on such points that in one case, when the defense called in eight doctors to refute Spilsbury, the jury refused to be swayed by them. At last people began to protest. Spilsbury's pronouncements, a lawyer complained, were becoming "invested with the force of dogma, and it was blasphemy to hint that he might conceivably be wrong...
...Bishops have grown away from the dogma," he wrote on October 28, 1951. "Emphasis has been put for so long on sociology, inter-racial justice, expediency, politics, and never on doctrine. Our bishops and priests are afraid--afraid that preaching the whole truth, even if they know it, would make them unpopular with the Protestants and the Jews, would bring on persecution, and they would have to give up worldly goods, prestige, popularity, and whatever degree of security they think they have...