Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I.C.U. has been a longtime dream of Japanese Protestants and foreign missionaries. Japan has 37 Christian colleges and universities, but few of them have the resources to compete with the big private or state universities, which are aggressively secular...
...President Conant delivered a disturbing blast against private education. It is hard to tell from the newspaper reports of the speech exactly how far Mr. Conant meant to go, but one's impression is that he is made uneasy by the very fact that private schools--religious and secular--exist alongside the public high schools. Not even the best private schools would seem to escape his strictures altogether...
...President Conant has delivered a disturbing blast against private education. It is hard to tell from the newspaper reports of the speech exactly how far Mr. Conant meant to go, but one's impression is that he is made uneasy by the very fact that private schools--religious and secular--exist along side the public high schools. Not even the best private schools would seem to escape his strictures altogether...
...that the technical elements which make a "sacred" style include an irregular rhythmic structure which fulfills the texts, rather than a distracting, strongly-accented, steadily-beaten pulse. He thinks music written in modes other than the familiar major and minor scales is effective in producng an other-worldly, non-secular atmosphere...
Pray that these lawmakers will have the good sense, then the gumption, to turn down ever mounting school demands. The greatest symbol educators could erect--which they won't erect--is to revive, in the class rooms, not secular panaceas, but a boundless faith...