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...Madras conference-whose findings the Swarthmore meeting met to ponder-reported that at no time during the past century had the Christian Church faced such opposition as it does today. Of 735.000,000 people in Europe and America, nearly one-third disclaim connection with Christian churches. Many more millions are being evangelized by the anti-Christian religions of Communism and Fascism. In the whole world, the spread of Christianity in the last decade has lagged behind the increase in heathen and pagan populations: Christians number only 737,000,000 of the world's 2,200,000,000 people...
...famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last week they took 13 Morgantown...
...manufacturer" had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker). Worcester, Mass, is one of the New England towns whose 19th-Century mills and streets bear witness to the loss. But Worcester has a fine Art Museum, and here last week New England scholars and art lovers gathered to ponder the art of mother great manufacturing region when art and manufacturing were...
Within two days, four Cabinet ministers went into the countryside to remind Britons, and, by implication, the dictator nations, that the British Empire was still tough. "The British Empire is so strong that it could not be defeated. Let those ponder who say we have grown weary with age and feeble in power. So they thought in 1914. They had a rude awakening," thundered Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm...
Last week 250 U. S. grownups met solemnly in Manhattan to ponder the significance of the children's museum movement. All of them hailed it as a step forward in progressive education. Dr. William G. Vinal of Massachusetts State College called them "workshops in democracy . . . laboratories of patriotism...