Word: hildebrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
...Hildebrand was an infant when her Mennonite parents left Russia and joined Canada's new Mennonite colony in the Red River Valley. The empty west assured isolation and few distractions for the Godfearing. They had their churches as they wanted them, without organ, altar or ornamentation. Their preachers were unpaid, farmed for a living. They clung to their pacifism, dressed in the plain garb that allowed no ornamentation or jewelry...
Last week, after an all-day church service and tearful farewells, they were ready to go. Mrs. Hildebrand's son Henry, 40, spoke for the others: "We must do something to keep our way of life. Children don't believe as their fathers did. They drift to the cities. Some follow the trades, even become lawyers, which is forbidden in our belief. We want to live as the Bible taught...
...California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose. [But] the presence of the mob need not seriously interfere with the education of the gifted...