Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal arts tradition is dead or dying"-a victim of the pressure for college work in high school and for graduate work in college. "Sooner or later the college as we know it will find that it has no proper place in the scheme of things," says Barzun...
...committee's thinking, for there have been suggestions that the committee should recommend a program for all of General Education almost exclusively devoted to the methods of scholarship. Scientists have always been convinced that method was the most important part of their eld, and have often suggested that the proper task of a Natural Sciences program was to teach scientific method. To some scientists, therefore, Reuben A. Brow preoccupation with method in Humanities is extremely appealing. But to most of those involved with the humanities, it is as important that a student should have read some of the great books...
Some Palestinian tells are 70 ft. thick and contain dozens of different layers of debris. Obviously little can be learned about them by looking only at their surfaces; they are the proper hunting grounds of diggers, who work back through the slow accretion of years. But in arid regions, where the tells are bare of vegetation, they erode faster, and the desert wind carries their dust away. In Jordan and southern Palestine there are tells that have worn to ground level. Only their potsherds have survived, all ages and types mingled together, their edges rounded like pebbles on a beach...
...unthinking obeisance to religion which often marked their background. But instead of shunning religion altogether, students have shown less piety and more interests. Although there is no religious revival, Rabbi Gold points out that there is more participation and a greater concern with the Jewish tradition as a proper field of study. Ultimately, be feels, this will strengthen Hillel specifically and Judaism generally...
...name new things after Kennedy is proper. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will be a fitting memorial to a President who encouraged serious intellectual pursuits. Little could be more consonant with the spirit of the man than to use his memory as impetus to new, worthwhile undertakings...