Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper emotional and intellectual nourishment only from moneyed, more highly educated parents. (Dameron has acquired a year and a half of college credits going to school part-time.) Other local adoption agencies disputed Social Worker O'Malley's financial point (Dori would obviously win a full scholarship), but they agreed that there are always problems arising from differences in the intelligence of children in the same family. Retorted Dameron: "If a couple had a very bright child by normal birth, does God then say. 'Don't have any more children'?" The league's reply...
...TIME's sources were the two biographies of Kemal Ataturk in English which are criticized by Turks as sensational. Turkish scholarship, now so prudent about its national hero, has not yet soundly encompassed the full dimensions of Ataturk's lively character and opinions...
Fifth Columnists. Though many Catholic teachers worry about "Catholic absenteeism in scholarship," they often urge students into the intellectual life for the wrong reasons. The student is supposed to be a sort of fifth columnist with a double duty to perform. "He should use scholarly method to introduce into [the] sciences Catholic teachings which are really derived outside of them, and negatively he should refute, in scholarly fashion, the work done by those whose findings apparently are hostile to the faith." For too long, says Weigel, the American Catholic has regarded himself as a' member of a "beleaguered community...
Noblest Action. "This kind of training leads away from scholarship. The postulate of all scholarly investigation is the nagging existence of mystery. The training of not a few young Catholics makes them believe that there is no mystery. It is all objectively clear and the category schemes of the past can make it manifest. If that is so, there is nothing more to be done. It has been done already and why waste time doing it over again...
...persuading more young Catholics into the life of true scholarship, says Weigel, there must be no urging "with the whip of the Church's need ... It is essential to woo young men and women to this vocation because it is good in itself ... for next to the contemplation of God, the contemplation of God's creation is the noblest action of man. This we must preach. This our youth must hear. Hearing, they will be attracted...