Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judaism has taught that the man who is righteous to his fellow-man but does not believe in God will be let into heaven, while the man who believes in God but is unjust to his neighbor will not. But this begs the question. And it leaves the way open for the proposition that man as well as God may formulate ethical systems, implying a relativism that the religious man will be unwilling to accept...
...respondents felt that "the Church (i.e., organized religion) stands for the best in human life," despite "minor errors and shortcomings," which are common to "all human institutions." The smallest percentage--3--considered the church "the one sure and infallible foundation of civilized life." Thus, again, the way is left open to view organized religion in an independent manner, the student regulating it rather than the other way round. For while the Church may "stand for" the best in human life, it does not compel obedience to its laws as the way to achieve the best in human life, and since...
Business School Open to Women...
...graduate schools, the University begins a new academic tradition by admitting three women to the Graduate School of Business Administration. For the first time, all University classrooms will be open to women. Some 300 women will do graduate work at Harvard this year in addition to the 420 who are graduate students at Radcliffe...
...should not stop at potentially dangerous ideas," stated Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, Director of Harvard Hillel. "We must study all the facts, for learning is basic, and learning gives the possibility of choice." Is it too optimistic to believe that such open inquiry will lead the Jew closer to Judaism? Zigmond says that he is not worried about Jews merely flirting with commitment "because there will be commitment at some time or another...