Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory. Most of the anecdotes seem rather chilling, deliberately so, but the analysis is quite original. He clearly demolishes the old notion of student politics as one episode toward modernization. Student movements plague all types of societies and generally end in chaos without a single piece of legislation or reform to call their own. Feuer invented much of this analysis in response to current student radicalism and applied it to history retrospectively, but his case is nevertheless well argued. When he applied his categories of student revolt to the American New Left, they led, a bit too easily, to harshly...
...recent graduate, suggested (believe it or not) eight proposals which it thought would help the College run without further incident. The proposals included suggestions to abolish grading and end competition. It suggested strange new ways of dealing with faculty-student relations. The letter ended with the signature of "reform...
...feared that "if universities will not govern themselves they will be governed by others." The current wave of student unrest, unless solved by the schools, could lead to backlash legislation that would be harmful to the universities. Thus the Council urged its member institutions to carry on with curriculum reform and develop a more open pattern of governance, and to create realistic disciplinary codes in cooperation with students and faculty. Police action may sometimes be necessary, the report noted, but it is better that universities "deal with disruptive situations" before it becomes necessary to bring in the forces...
With good reason: Erasmus* has survived those centuries well. As a humanist of international eminence and a lifelong apostle of Christian renewal, he put a special mark both on the Renaissance and on the Reformation that followed it. More important, many of his ideas about reform and the Christian life seem remarkably relevant today, and the best scholarship on Erasmus has been the work of 20th century historians. The most recent example is Erasmus of Christendom (Scribners, $6.95), an affectionate appreciation by Yale Reformation Historian Roland H. Bainton, best known for his biography of Martin Luther, Here I Stand...
...first popular books, a volume that he dedicated hopefully to a sybaritic armaments manufacturer. His Enchiridion Militis Christian! (The Handbook, or "Dagger," of the Christian Soldier) failed to convert the man to a more virtuous life, but it did become a stimulus to Christian liberal reform throughout Europe. It assured the layman that he could be as much a true Christian as any priest-a revolutionary thought for the times. "Monasticism is not a way of piety," Erasmus said. "It is a way of living...