Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years at college, Buckley's remained fixed. During his stretch at Yale (he was chairman of the Daily News and an excellent debater) Buckley measured what the college was teaching against what he already believed. Yale generally came out second best; Buckley found his classes and clubs disturbingly secular and collectivist. In "God and Man at Yale" he has drawn on what he remembers of his courses and teachers to try to convince his fellow alumni just how Godless and socialist Yale has become, and what they can do about...
Even Ch'en Tu-hsiu, the leader of the early Communist party, was not a rabid Communist. He believed in secular Manchester liberalism, yet took Party control because he thought that revolution would sweep the world. But Moscow doubted that students could carry through a revolt of national scope. Russia wanted China as an ally and designed to combine the new Communist party with the older Nationalist Koumintang as the only way to make a solid front...
...attempt at introducing a sectarian, doctrinaire approach to religion at Harvard would be inconsistent with the University's secular traditions...
This was the gist of President Conant's remarks at the chapel service in Memorial Church on Tuesday. In reaffirming Harvard's tradition of religious toleration and non-denominationalism, Conant was defending Harvard from certain critics who "condemn all secular education as godless and immoral...
Eliot wrote these words at the beginning of the century when the problems facing university students were not so pressing as they are today. Such words are a perfect definition of the ideals of mid-Twentieth Century education as well. They deserve repetition whenever secular education is irrationally blamed for the sad state of mankind and morals. They are an excellent answer to these attacks on free educational institutions--attacks which must be answered before terms like "godless" and "immoral" assume a new, broader meaning...