Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University community, the curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
Popular opinion usually regards the female as a member of the species with a greater degree of religiosity. Women are often considered more likely than men to accept doctrines of religious faith, and many clergymen will ascertain that women outnumber men in attendance at worship services. Frequently, the everyday explanation of this phenomenon is that the female is by nature a more sentimental and less rational being than the male...
Radcliffe girls are less likely to reject their religious tradition entirely, more likely to pray and attend worship services, more outspoken against intermarriage, and more anxious to raise their children in their own faith. And unlike Harvard, Radcliffe girls are slightly more interested in religion than they are in politics...
...want to give their children no religious training at all, there are only 4 girls of this opinion. And for every 10 men who would choose a different religion from their own in which to raise children, there are only 6 girls who wish to deviate from their own faith...
Just as Radcliffe students tend to be more conservative in retaining the religious tradition of their childhood, the girls are somewhat more inclined to disapprove of mixed marriages. Among the reasons most frequently checked were: "problem of children's religious education," "dislike of certain doctrines in this other faith," "parental reaction," and "fear of 'mixed marriage' in general...