Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fall ACT will screen 150,000 high school seniors aspiring to some 250 colleges in 14 states. Results will go to the student, his school, the colleges of his choice. Price per student: $3, half the usual College Board fee. Another difference: the most widely used board test covers ability in English and math; ACT tests ability in English, math, social studies and natural sciences. Ostensibly, ACT is not competing with the board. With all freshmen due to jump from 711,000 this year to 1,267,000 by 1969, both organizations are likely to share ample business...
...remaining 60 per cent who answered the poll, including the convert, seem to be orthodox in their faith. To begin with they practice their religion. They also agree with the Church on issues of Catholic doctrine (for instance, they unanimously affirm that "God is just"), yet they vary among themselves on all matters of opinion...
...influences of religion on international issues seem clearer. Whereas 67 per cent of all the questionnaires favored total war over surrender to the Soviet Union, 87 per cent of the Catholics were for bombs rather than capitulation. This is linked to the fact that almost half the Catholics (of all varieties) feel religious beliefs are central in the conflict between East and West, compared with about 25 per cent for the College as a whole...
...Church acknowledges that the most tested faith may be the strongest, that people may grow spiritually under tension; but the Church has no faith in strain per se. And certainly a continuous process of questioning will not in itself appear as a positive good, either to the Catholic Church or to Catholics...
...indicate the rationale for this interpretation, let us turn to the polls themselves. Of the 319 answering the poll, 7 per cent were raised as Roman Catholics, 22 per cent as Jews, 59 per cent as Protestants, 6 per cent in no faith at all, and the remainder in other faiths. When asked the tradition in which they now belonged, Protestants showed the most striking change. Seventy-five per cent of polled Episcopalians remained Episcopalians; only five "Liberalized Protestants" (Unitarians, Universalists, etc.) dropped out of their faith, but out of 109 middle-ground Protestants, 43, or 39 per cent, left...