Word: doubting
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...both French and English. Classes are conducted either in French or English. Thus Assumption has won the sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they...
...with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering. The mere mention of "The Decline of the West" and there will be no further doubt...
...problem of proper housing for the faculty is increasingly a hard one, and it is no doubt undesirable that any very large percentage of this body should have to find lodging in apartments where entertaining and informal meeting with students can be accomplished only with difficulty. Quite recently the most pressing phase of the situation, that of proper housing for young instructors has been met by the establishment of the Harvard Housing Trust, which though owned and controlled outside of the University, works in informal cooperation with it. The two groups of houses so far built by this organization, namely...
...those educators in charge of preparatory schools which cater definitely to the large eastern universities, however, this continued academic supremacy of the public schools should provide some cause for questioning the efficiency of their present system of instruction, for there can be no doubt that this is the basis of the difference...
...could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused of Calvinism, drunkenness and gluttony, he retained his influence with a sufficient number of cardinals and bishops to acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored, no doubt, as cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion...