Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others have examined their religious beliefs from their vantage point in college. The examination of one's beliefs is almost essential to every intelligent being, or else the beliefs will not expand as the individual develops, and will soon become empty and useless. Thus every Catholic should possess an examined faith, and he should let others learn from it, share it. But first he must make it real and alive for himself...
Although few men--even in the academic community--possess sufficient courage to tag themselves as active "radicals," a suprisingly large number accept the political proposals that the Respectable Radicals put forward. While the group retains its popular identity as "liberals," its program, in many cases, is decidedly radical...
...gems from recent themes produced by Muhlenberg freshmen: "Now of days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...
Although few men--even in the academic community--possess sufficient courage to tag themselves as active "radicals," a surprisingly large number accept the political proposals that the Respectable Radicals put forward. While the group retains its popular identity as "liberal," its program, in many cases, is decidedly radical...
...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...