Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign don't read, and those who do read the don't sign." Though the the scattered remnants of McCarthyism account for some of this fear, it is both childish and self-deceptive to place even most of the blame on the late demagogue from Wisconsin. A large number of students remain politically naive, and of those who have studied the issues, many prefer to keep silent until they have learned more...
Indeed, it is the opinion of the clergymen who work in the University community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...
...percentages of membership in the various denominations diverged in only a few cases: The Radcliffe polls included a smaller percentage of Roman Catholics than Harvard. Although there was a comparable number of Jews, there were far fewer Orthodox and Conservative, the majority being Reform. Radcliffe showed a somewhat higher percentage of Episcopalians--6 for every 5 at Harvard. (This disproportion was corroborated by the personal observations of the Rev. Donald Maitland of Christ Church...
...Where numbers connected by a hyphen are given (e.g. 100-99) this signifies the first number answered "yes;" the second number answered "no" to the statement or question...
...most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a remorseless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of liberal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause of the atheist heresy is similarly an objection against the theology of the faith, grounded on the ethics of that same faith: Ivan Karamazov's outrage at "the existence of underserved pain and suffering...