Word: elected
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...predestination Calvin added such corollary conclusions as "particular redemption" (God's picking and choosing the elect), "moral inability" (the impossibility of doing anything to save oneself), "invincible grace" (the impossibility of doing anything to damn oneself if God has decreed otherwise) and "final perseverance" (the guarantee that all the elect will reach heaven-no matter what...
...from making do-nothing fatalists of men, Calvin's doctrine of the elect attracted millions all over Europe and America and made them dedicated doers. Calvin, who was confident of his own election, found the dreadful doctrine "productive of the most delightful benefit." The same warming certainty of salvation helped the Huguenots stand fast in France; it stiffened the Dutch defending Holland and nourished the Puritanism...
While Alberg asserts the conservatives are definitely in control, Phillips views the race as a "major" liberal-conservative test which might "have great repercussions... to the extent where we could elect a President...
...former Fellows ranges from Architect Christopher Wren and Lawyer William Blackstone of Commentaries fame, to Britain's turn-of-the-century Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, and three viceroys of India (Curzon, Chelmsford, Halifax). Typically, the Fellows lean heavily to law and history. Only recently did All Souls elect its first modern scientist. Geneticist (specialty: butterflies) Edmund B. Ford, but the belated-ness of this honor fails to disturb Warden John H. A. Sparrow, a former barrister. "Is it more important to be like everyone else," he asks, "or to be like yourself...
Juniors will be able to elect a new course, Chemistry 94, which is followed by Chemistry 95 in the senior year. The Chem 94-95 sequence, composing a full credit, will concern itself with "familiarizing the student with some pertinent literature, or actually carrying out laboratory work, as agreed between him and his tutor...