Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major reason for the change to be "increased thinking about religion and other related problems." Courses, reading in religion and philosophy, and influence of friends played far less important roles. Thus, while doubtless the Harvard atmosphere of increased examination of all questions was a great influence, one may also say that this atmosphere is formed by highly introspective students, who have reached a high degree of introspection upon admission to Harvard...
...University has become a sanctuary where one can avoid sectarian evangelism--a temple where the representatives of all creeds say prayers before the altar of Tolerance before laying their votive scholarship on the altar of Truth...
...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius...'as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...strife and to provide a haven for many points of view. Buttrick recognizes this necessity. In his course on the New Testament, Humanities 124, he is concerned with showing the influence of Biblical "categories of thought." He states that "a university is for understanding. Our concern is not to say whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...
This is not to say that each seminar should be a little gen. ed. course, but it does mean that initial over-specialization may lead freshmen to ignore the momentous questions latent in any study. A seminar in history, for example, offers a wonderful opportunity to work by case study to the problems of moral judgment, freedom and determinism, while a seminar in sun spots, say, might be valuable not only for its intrinsic material but as an introduction to scientific method and philosophy. It is to be hoped that the scholars who conduct specialized seminars will remember that...