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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for such reflection, it may not be good to introduce disturbing thoughts." Such a view implies a fairly elitist view of knowledge and philosophy; but there is agreement by both Demos and Dawson that the student who is qualified to come to Harvard is able, in Demos's phrase, to have "his religion buffeted by the winds of reason." The split between classroom exposition and classroom conversion is only one factor contributing to the College relativism. Demos says that in Harvard's case 'Veritas means that we are committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University...
...fact must be stated plainly that the overwhelming majority of Harvard students who possess "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment," in President Pusey's Baccalaureate phrase,--and who profess a belief in what that word signifies--do so in a sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenistic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would...
President Pusey, leading the ceremonies, will confer honorary degrees upon still-secret distinguished persons. The President's traditional phrase, "By virtue of the authority delegated to me, I admit you to the fellowship of educated men," will welcome 3,113 students to higher reaches of learning...
George Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes the fate of this world immensely the more serious; it could be a spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate here: "a higher history than all history hitherto." Yet the orthodox often talk as though the death of the soul would trivialize or vitiate the worth of life altogether. Quite to the contrary, must be the nonbeliever's reply: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul...
...actually better off than before the war, but is worse off in relation to those below." Workers own TV sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire to be physicians, naval officers, scientists. "Working class" has become a pejorative phrase. In the new low-cost housing development at East Grinstead, authorities recently refused to distribute a police leaflet giving advice on protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life...