Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, the University offers only a few elementary courses in Armenian. "When the chair is established," Gibbnoted, "a full selection of courses will first be offered on the graduate level. Eventually, we expect that Armenian will be an undergraduate field of concentration...
Demanding any level of math achievement as a prerequisite for admission would be an unhealthy move. The present requirements are in line with those of many universities; instituting a math requirement would assume that Harvard's influence in elevating high-school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet...
...well-off Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...
Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
...profoundest level is a school for heroes, what is the hero's role? He is the touchstone of man's fate, argues Eliot. "We know our fate is of each moment, we know it is eternal, and we know what it is. Ever since classical times we have known what man's fate is. We have known it in our hearts and we have acted upon it. Man's fate is to be free...