Word: existing
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...recommendations of Provost Buck's committee on religion point up a serious lack in the curriculum of this university: the absence of a broad General Education course in the field of modern religion. The fact that religious systems exist in all cultures indicates that they serve an important function to mankind. The study of our own religion is certainly important enough to warrant a course in it; our religion deserves study both as a part of our cultural heritage (as does literature, for instance), and as an area of personal importance to every student...
Yale has decided to crack down on the towel situation. Discovery of an annual loss of $3,600 caused the director of the Yale gymnasium to start a get-tough policy during the last two months. Harvard authorities, meanwhile, stated that a similar situation does not exist in Cambridge...
...books Nehru revises Voltaire's famous sarcasm (if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him): if God did exist, it would be necessary not to worship...
While expressing regret at leaving the University, Ullman said last night, "I regret that Harvard does not see fit to teach geography fully because of the excellent facilities for the subject here. Separate departments of Geography now exist in practically every major American university, and many of them do not have such excellent facilities as Harvard...
...More important," Weiss notes, "is the fact that the societies injure their own members . . . the societies as they now exist--rich, complacent, with an aura of success--seem to promote primarily a provincialism and limitation in the outlook of their members...