Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures mean anything, organized religion in the U.S. has little to shout hallelujah about. The Twentieth Century Fund's monumental 3½-year study (America's Needs & Resources, published this week) adds a few sorry details to a sorry story that U.S. churchmen already know...
...itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle. Commission III (Educational Opportunities and Discrimination) might adopt the suggestion for a national employment counseling service to beat the "closed shop" dilemma confronting many men and women of minority race or religion in professional and other fields. Commission IV (Educational Standards and Curricula) should attempt to gain united student support for increased faculty salaries. Commission V (International Student Cooperation) faces a full agenda with world student exchange, foreign relief work and rehabilitation projects as well as the more obvious matter of helping to orient...
...Dean Sperry asserted in a Memorial Church sermon last March. "He must put together such pieces of the puzzle as he picks up on this expedition," he said, "through such departments as history, literature, philosophy, and Semitic languages." Comparison shows that an undergraduate can get a better education in religion at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, or Chicago. There are certain elementary Divinity School courses offered by the School faculty, which also belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; but undergraduates usually find them too advanced or specialized...
...deterring factor is the bias frequently encountered in teaching religion. But the College, Dean Sperry said, tends toward neglect...
...have its findings in the Corporation's hands in time for a pre-June 5 publication. Once the commission's work is made known only Corporation action will stand between epithets such as "cheapest place to get a Ph D." and a happy solution of the paradoxical dilemma of religion at Harvard...