Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus College, said about trains running into Cambridge on Sunday, 'It is equally displeasing to God and to myself...
...route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the future." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing . . . Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin...
...Protestants, only 31% (as against 74% of the Catholics) believed in immortality. Only 45% regard Jesus Christ as "divine"; 40% consider him "only as a very great prophet or teacher...
...with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immortal, and by Whose will good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...
...under the rules of his order, he may not receive the bequest. He may 1) turn it over to the Society of Jesus, or 2 ) return it to the estate...