Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poor Cousins. Furthermore, says the FORUM, the public should treat the school crisis as a permanent one; "instead of handling 'temporary' schools as poor cousins, so badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...
Schoolmen themselves, says the FORUM. should study new methods of building, heating, lighting and ventilating. Instead of monumental, blocklike buildings, the modern school should be small and informal, neither too forbidding for its pupils to go to, nor too cumbersome for its principal to run. Its rooms should be cheery and colorful as any parlor, as sunny as any porch. All this can be accomplished, says the FORUM, if school boards follow the rules of common sense. Rule No. 1: hire a good architect...
...wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that it is the duty of every philosopher to go down into a cave and shape his thoughts. I've been down in the cave. Now, I'm coming...
Fresh Spirit. The Church, says Barth, will die and petrify if it does not proclaim the Good News. Christians have been told to "Go out and preach the Gospel!" The injunction is not " 'Go and celebrate services!' 'Go and edify yourselves with the sermon!' 'Go and celebrate the Sacraments!' 'Go and present yourselves in a liturgy, which perhaps repeats the heavenly liturgy!' 'Go and devise a theology which may gloriously unfold like the Summa of St. Thomas!' Of course, there is nothing to forbid all this; there may exist very...
...Anyone with a keen nose will smell it and find it dreadful! Christianity is not 'sacred'; rather, there breathes in it the fresh air of the Spirit. Otherwise it is not Christianity. For it is an out & out 'worldly' thing, open to all humanity: 'Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature...