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Upon admission to the college, the freshman is faced not only with the prohibitive list of "Thou shalt nots" but one important "Thou shalt." Every other week, the underclassman must rouse himself for church services. Compulsory chapel is one leg of what Dodds calls "a three-legged stool of religion." The Student Christian Association and the College's own Department of Religion are the other two braces of Princetonian program. A student can contract out of the compulsory chapel only by going to the Dean and saying that he is satisfied by no religious belief and cannot in conscience attend...
...course there is no absolute ethical command: 'Thou shalt always obey every law.' But there is a presumption in favor of obeying law. Strongly opposed as I am to McCarthyism, I am compelled to support the legitimacy of congressional investigations. I think the Jenner and Velde committees are doing rather more harm than good by their present inquiries, but the plain truth is that they are not as yet conducting a general fishing expedition into ideas and beliefs. They are questioning comparatively few teachers about their primary loyalties...
...became an assistant dean in charge of sophomores. In his class report of about that time, listed "fishing for bass" as his outdoor hobby. But his outdoor interests have become less, not more sedentary over the years, in remarkable contrast to old clubhouse dictum ("when thou become forty, thou shalt play nothing but golf"). A couple of years ago, he took up ski racing, careful to protect himself with short or "goon" skis. "I used to ski on the long ones, but I was breaking my ankles. Haven't been injured since I took up the goons." Basketball...
...handshake of a Boy Scout leader (which he is). He adheres to the old-fashioned philosophy that God helps those who help themselves. Benson quotes the Bible to show how he applies this dictum to farming. Not through Government handouts, says he, but "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Benson believes that "no real American wants to be subsidized." For holding to these beliefs Benson has been caught in a whirling political storm. His principles have not been twisted by the blow, but the force of the gale is mounting...
...Communist front for the balance of the week over such a long period of time, it is no wonder that the bishop sees an investigating committee in every vestry." (Retorted Bishop Oxnam: "Congressman Jackson should know that there is no congressional immunity from the Biblical injunction: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.'") Jackson and Velde wanted the House to call up the ouster resolution and shout it down, but G.O.P. leaders still hoped to let it die a quiet death on the Rules Committee's shelf...