Word: profess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overdose of professional guidance services can lead to a specialization in which the faculty feels less responsibility for the students as people, leaving the emotional and personal areas to those who profess to be trained to deal with them...
...Sept. 28 to the Pilgrimage of American Churchmen. The President said then: "For some time I have been trying to bring a number of the great religious leaders of the world together in a common affirmation of faith and a common supplication to the one God that all profess ... It has not yet been possible to bring the religious faiths together for this purpose of bearing witness that God is the way of truth and peace. Even the Christian churches have not yet found themselves able to say, with one voice, that Christ is their Master and Redeemer...
...their burdensome thoughts." There are warnings that those who still hold reactionary thoughts or have not yet confessed reactionary deeds will sooner or later regret it. What follows is a kind of political revivalist meeting, or a Buchmanite confessional, at which students cry their ideological sins and profess to see the light of reform...
...daughter Tatiana (second of 13 children) took her father's precepts so seriously that she kept a moral temperature chart in the form of a diary. Tatiana made it a record of unsparing selfcriticism: "In my life-nothing; constant shame of my uselessness, and . . . whereas I profess Christianity in theory, in practice I so disgrace...
...Faculty and the Deans really have the respect for undergraduate freedom which they so often profess, they will approve the present set of rules with only minor polishing. If they attempt to introduce extraneous and unnecessary restrictions, as they have done' twice before, their good faith in this whole matter will be open to question...