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Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining...
...greater subtleties." But the need is also great. The religious aspect of education, Freund concluded, "is too important to be left to the professional educators alone." What is needed is a collaboration, "among others, of philosophers to clarify objectives, psychologists to advise on techniques of learning, and lawyers to furnish materials from the quarries of moral decisions known as the law reports." Asked why no ministers were included among his collaborators, Freund explained: "I don't think there would be any constitutional difficulty about bringing in ministers as consultants. I just thought it would be more prudent...
Rockefeller Jr. objected to the funny-looking American folk art that she sold his wife. Eventually it helped to furnish Williamsburg...
...Lady first cast its glint across the Indiana plains. It wasn't much of a team at that; in two years, Notre Dame lost three straight to Michigan, prompting the coach to dash off a plaintive letter to Yale's Walter Camp: "Dear Sir: Will you kindly furnish me some points on the best way to develop a good football team?" Whatever Camp's advice was, it worked: the Irish were unbeaten m 1892 and 1893; and in 1903, they ran up 292 points to their opponents' zero...
Last night the Boston NAACP fired off telegrams to both former Governor John A. Volpe and Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, giving them until 10 a.m. this morning to furnish the NAACP with their positions on extremism and civil rights...