Word: shibboleths
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...hand, finds that as a woman minister she is able to communicate with young people, especially girls, "who are able to talk to me about things they could not tell a male priest." Barbro is well liked by her parishioners who seem to share her contempt for the Pauline shibboleth. "The time we live in " she says, "requires that both men and women help carry out and spread the teachings of Christ. Tradition is to help people, and not to bind them...
...January 30's editorial is its status seeking. The CLGS program is not "debased" by the present ruling--rather the opposite, for the faculty has at last recognised that very often the thesis is a negative rather than a positive educational experience. But the CRIMSON instead subscribes to the shibboleth that it is better to get a cum laude by writting a thesis than in CLGS. The CRIMSON does indeed "link the idea of the CLGS with that of second-rate performance." It's time that this sort of academic snobbery was snuffed out. The Faculty made the first step...
Students are not here in order to be "creative." Creativity is a shibboleth that countenances or excuses much careless, ill-considered and pretentious thinking. Creativity cannot be taught, nor learned, and its expression is necessary and inevitable in the work of anyone who is capable of it. Professors, as well as students, are not unaware of the purpose and value of examinations, and may have reflected, before your columnist, on the best method of conducting them. We have been students also, some of us quite recently, and our creativity is likely to equal that of the students we teach...
...Stan Musial went out of his way to insist that the decline in batting averages is not due to a decline in the skill of the players, the old shibboleth of many sportswriters. "In the '40s. when I came up, I played against the great players of the '30s. and I heard them talk about the great ones of the '20s. Now it's the '60s, and some of the kids I'm playing with and against will be the superstars of the '70s. You get a long perspective, and the players...
...rejected another term after his present one ends on Friday. For the last seven years he has used the power of his office and of public opinion to persecute dissent in a manner not only contemptuous of civil liberties but also amusingly destructive of New Hampshire's favorite shibboleth: meddlesome government is evil. That adage seems a ludicrous antique...