Word: eruditio
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...Methodists are now giving renewed attention to the kind of learning that Duke sums up in its motto, Eruditio et Religio. They feel that "church-owned colleges should be frankly conducted as instrumentalities of the church." The goal is a strong religious director for every campus, Christian-hued research by faculties, and-because the church expects its colleges to replace its missionaries abroad-many more foreign students. Says John Gross: "If Moscow's Friendship University is the world center for the study of Communism, then the centers for the study of the Judeo-Christian West should be the church...
...spite of Few's stature, the university met derision from the start. Some wag suggested that it change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Eruditio, Religio et Cherooto et Cigaretto. Under Few's less able successor, President Robert L. Flowers, the situation grew worse: though Duke was already beginning to build up a solid faculty, its reputation as a playboy's haven lived on. It was not until 1949, when rangy (6 ft. 2½ in.) Arthur Hollis Edens took over, that it began to come back into...
...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
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