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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty will probably rummage through the subject of the language requirement again next year, according to Dean Bundy, and it seems likely that there will be pressure to tighten the requirement so it will mean something...
...because the Church is no longer talking a language which illuminates problems confronting the Academy. We have no Christian society because Christianity has failed to say and do anything finally effective about science and progress. We can only begin to talk about Christian education after we know what we mean by Christianity, and that word has not had an imminent experiential reference for four centuries...
Another summary came from his House superintendent, a friend, "He was a queer guy. He got all mixed up with all these homosexuals and atheists. He got himself all screwed up thinking too much. I mean he never had a date because he was always too worried about something. Sometimes I'd give him advice or tell him he ought to go to church, but he never listened. I guess they taught him to be independent. He couldn't listen. I guess he always had the idea that he had something to say that was too important to listen...
...until several years later that he realized that good company could mean more than intelligence, sophistication and conviviality. It was when he began to look for this new radical kind of goodness, to look for virtue instead of virtuosity, that he first found how little his systematic education had actually meant in his search for a way of life...
...most staggering problem is that of expense, for if more tutors were to be used, there would have to be money to pay them. Exactly where they would come from is another problem of no mean difficulty...