Word: dogmas
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Harvard cannot claim to hold the four year purity program as a matter of dogma, since students are allowed to transfer from other colleges. Nor can one truly believe that Harvard has such a low opinion of foreign schools. The presence of foreign students here is admitted to be valuable; why not the presence of American students who have spent a year abroad? It is strange that in a world desperately in need of internationalism, one of the leading institutions of the most international pursuit, scholarship, should in this matter be maintaining such unbending restrictions...
Education must be free of any kind of dogma and creed, Zigmond said. There must be liberty for those who don't held proclaimed beliefs...
...cuts a path of its own between the intellectual themes of such small-circulation magazines as Commonweal and the Catholic World and the folksy but heavy-handed news-plus-doctrine of the average diocesan weekly. In its neat packages of pictures and text, Jubilee can equally well explain the dogma of the Assumption, illustrate the life and work of modern Catholic artists like the late Eric Gill, discuss historical figures like the Venerable Bede, or give its readers a handy briefing (by a Catholic psychiatrist) on the dangers of too-severe toilet training for children...
...must the Anglican publications lean so heavily upon the crutch of criticism of Rome - especially if they do not have even an elemental understanding of Roman Catholic beliefs such as the place Mary occupies in Catholic dogma? . . . From some of their more recent railings, it seems their publications have degenerated into a hodgepodge of misguided attacks on certain facets of Catholic belief...
...judgment. For he sprang into print with a series in Borba, the party newspaper. Djilas gave it as his personal opinion that the Yugoslav Communist Party's methods were outmoded. Compulsory "cell" meetings through which leaders exercised guidance over lesser comrades were "sterile." The "churchlike" insistence on dogma had become unnecessary...