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...story of the meet, from a Crimson standpoint, was all Landau, Harvard's first winner in a running event since E.E. "Gene" Record won the low hurdles in 1932, his third straight win in the event...
Edward F. Tierney, head of the Cambridge Police Traffic Bureau, said the rotary plan "worked very well from the standpoint of traffic, but residents in the area complained too much about the added noise and traffic near their homes...
...must learn to recognize in the Jews "a superior capacity for civic virtue which the Gentile majority rather flagrantly overlooks." Theologically, adds Niebuhr, Christians would do well to analyze the areas of divergence between the two faiths. He finds the differences less extreme than is generally supposed. "From the standpoint of the Christian, the doctrine of grace is the most significant distinction between Christianity and Judaism." But in the practical world, Niebuhr finds, a religion of grace does not always yield superior results: "The fact that Jews have been rather more creative than Christians in establishing brotherhood with the Negro...
...reading of Mr. Bartley's skillful but too subtly constructed article. Prof. Wilder has with consummate skill defended the idea of commitment, an idea which comes only with the experience of constrasting the quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures of the University's philosophers and social scientists. This is in no way to deny the the great value, within their own area...
...natural sciences should, therefore, institute courses which examine some particular field of general relevance in modern science using past developments to lead up to the central problem of concern. In physics, for example, a course in particle theory could be used as a specific standpoint from which to develop an understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain...