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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encounter with Islam | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...conception of education is the environment in which learning goes on. Harvard provides good intellectual conditions for its faculty and students. Our libraries, laboratories, and museums are of high quality. We cannot, however, afford to rest content. It is necessary endlessly to be concerned with the improvement of environmental conditions in order to build here in Cambridge a modern community of learning of highest excellence in all respects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full Text of Pusey's Report to the Overseers | 10/31/1956 | See Source »

3) Inconsistencies of discipline which indicates that discipline is just another word for the parents' convenience. 4) Relative lack of masculine attributes in the father or feminine attributes in the mother, making a student unsure of what he or she wants to be like. 5) "The presence of distorted or...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Psychiatric Services: A Part of Harvard | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

It need hardly be emphasized that the Negro is not of a natural intellectual inferiority compared to the white. As Harold A. Ferguson and Richard L. Plaut, Executive Vice Chairman of NSSFNS, have pointed out, "There is no evidence of differences between the intellectual achievement of whites and Negroes because...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Integration Becomes A Fight Over Principles | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

Daland also thinks that faculty members soften their actual views in order to appear less objectionable to students. "If I became known as some radical character," Daland says, "then I would reduce my usefulness to the University." Students at Alabama are unprepared to hear that Negroes are in no way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Moderation' Fails at U. of Alabama | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

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