Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russell A. Simpson, assistant dean of the Law School, and Joseph E. Leininger, secretary of international legal studies, have been named to fill the vacancies created by the departure of Louis A. Toepfer, vice dean of the Law School and director of admissions...
...personal contacts with students. The Rev. William J. Schneider's large Episcopal student organization allows him to send students to the homes of Episcopalians who have just been accepted to Harvard. Many other United Ministry members send letters at the beginning of the fall term to all who fill out the religious preference cards. This procedure is not held in universal esteem: "This preference card business has no relation to reality," Blanning complains. "By the sophomore year most undergraduates realize that filling them out isn't required...
...Anderson, a conservative Methodist theologian, begins Religion 220 by telling his students: "The Bible is the greatest collection of mythology in the history of Western civilization." Students who were fundamentalists in September frequently are demythologizers by January. Some students who have no faith take the courses because they fill a genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students who study religion as a snap generally get their heads snapped back. For a doctorate in the subject at Columbia, graduate students need a working knowledge of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit...
Religion is expanding so fast as a study that most universities have a hard time finding competent teachers. Dr. Thomas O'Dea, head of Columbia's religion department, estimates that it will be five years before there are enough Ph.D.s "to fill a demand that is so large it's almost a vacuum." Yet O'Dea believes the vacuum will be filled, since colleges are realizing that "without a thorough knowledge of a culture's religion, it is often nearly impossible to understand that culture...
...when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always to be getting in the way of national heroes." All memorable enough-and merchandisable enough. But even Stevenson didn't coin enough to fill a book...