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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew up a letter protesting this method of selection and requested a meeting with Mrs. Bunting for a reconsideration of the matter. Sixty-five juniors signed that letter. The same day the letter reached Mrs. Bunting -- March 28 -- the bills for next year's room deposit were delivered without prior notice. And students were also informed that the lottery would take place immediately after spring vacation. Thus, there was very little time to question the method of selection; spring vacation came in the interim, which meant most girls were away from Radcliffe between their notice of the lottery...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Mrs. Bunting and the Girls | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...Christian thinkers from dozens of countries. The sessions deal broadly and impartially with major contemporary themes, such as the problems of youth and cities. Purpose of the meetings is to encourage Islam to face these issues from the perspective of its own traditions. Says the monastery's prior, Dom Denis Martin: "We try to show them that the alternative is not atheistic materialism, much less Christianity, but a renovated Islam adapting Moslem values to the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: Dialogue with Mecca | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Strength of Reality. Whatever lies beyond, the new eschatology may make it harder for some people to face death. Says the Rev. Kevin Wall, prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Berkeley, Calif.: "Those who hold myth-convictions are better prepared to face death with equanimity. It is more difficult for the rationalist to contemplate death." German Protestant Theologian Dorothee Solle believes that "emphasis on this world means an intensification of the death experience. The new theology says that life is definite, not indefinite, that our chances are limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eschatology: New Views of Heaven & Hell | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...decision in no way "derogates from the teachings of the church, the popes and bishops trustees' on birth control." Cause of the trustees' sudden change of mind was what O'Boyle described as described as "additional information" - meaning their belated and sudden embarrassed discovery that prior to the dismissal decision Curran had been unanimously recommended for promotion by both the C.U. theology faculty and its academic senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Victory of C.U. | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...graduate dorms, where summer school boys live. Last summer--the rules may be up for limit revision this year--girls had to be in by 1 a.m. on week nights, 2 a.m. on weekends. They are allowed three "late night" permissions for the entire summer, subject to prior blanket permission from their parents and specific authorization from their proctor, usually a graduate student...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Summer School Mystique: Thousands Come Every Year In Search of Harvard | 5/2/1967 | See Source »

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