Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biblical critics nowadays are grateful for the work of their 19th Century predecessors. But, says Professor Samuel Terrien of Union Theological Seminary, they "have come to realize that many extreme positions [of the "higher criticism"] which were widely held at the beginning of the 20th Century should be either utterly rejected, or at least corrected in the direction of a qualified conservatism ... It is no longer a matter of crucial importance to know whether or not Moses wrote the Pentateuch in its present form, whether or not Isaiah of Jerusalem was responsible for all the chapters of the book which...
...bumbling way Yale tried to do the Massachusetts school favors in return. When President Holyoke of Harvard died, President Ezra Stiles of Yale recommended a certain Rev. Samuel Locke to the Harvard Corporation as a worthy successor to him. Locke served three years until 1773 and then resigned suddenly and without apparent reason. His motive was uncovered recently when the publication of Stiles' diary revealed that his protege had made a maidservant "great with childe...
...Thus," says Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison '08, "a Yale man became the greatest benefactor to Harvard in our entire history, making a noble return for the part that Harvard men had taken in founding his alma mater." Three years after Harvard's House system was in operation, Yale, had its College system, also as a result of a gift from Harkness...
ALEUTIANS, GILBERTS AND MARSHALLS (353 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...know how either party can reconcile the promises of increasing welfare and the necessity for rearmament in the face of the latest economic crisis," said Samuel Beer, Associate Professor of Government, referring to the coming British elections. "Tories are in the same boat as Labor on this--for example where Labor is now promising 300,000 new houses, the Tories are promising to build 300,000. Whichever party wins will have a tough time if the dollar shortage continues...