Word: regarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aiken said Harvard "thinks of itself as the exemplary university" for the nation. "It is impractical that Harvard should regard itself as Christian. As a national university, it should submit Christianity, as well as every other doctrine, to critical examination...
...greatest proportion of these do so in the normal four-year program. It is socially unusual to leave Harvard. Many people, however, do leave this college before they graduate, and a great many others consider leaving at some time during their college career. The decision to leave is regarded as a serious one by most of those making it, reflecting the degree of seriousness with which most of those people regard Harvard...
Some of those who leave, however, spent their time in Cambridge. This is hardly thought an adequate solution. Miles says, "I would like to adopt the Oxford plan: those leaving being prohibited from coming closer than three miles of the city. I do not regard working for J. August as a good way to spend one's leave of absence...
Today the Harvard Corporation can dim the most glaring aspect of the "religious controversy." To do so it must reverse what it may regard as a well-established precedent. The decisions which reserved Memorial Church for Christian wedding and funeral services must now appear inconsistent with the role of Harvard as a liberal university and with the role of the church as a memorial to war dead of all faiths. When this issue is resolved the University will be better able to evaluate the larger implications of religion at Harvard...
...course true that the President and many of his colleagues regard rigid separation of education and religion as both dangerous in theory and impossible in fact. But it is also true that a majority of the Faculty and students disagree with them...