Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of geographical distribution, the Cornell student body does not exhibit an equivalent degree of diversity. While the University has students from every state and from nearly 70 foreign countries, and admissions officers strive for ever wider distribution, Cornell is still to a large extent a New York State school, with close to sixty per cent of its students from within the state...
...their Lord in iso lation from the world. It is the world which He came to save . . . But this witness of the church to its Lord is weakened by our faithlessness-not least by our divisions. Therefore will the church deal with these divisions with holy impatience, and passionately strive for unity...
...more powerful sculptor would probably not have excited such diverse reactions. Nor would one less powerful, since lesser men strive for the obvious, which Marcks scorns. His art. like that of the ancient Greeks, chiefly celebrates the wonder and joy of being alive, of being able to stand...
...usual, there was no clear agreement on just what form that hope should take. Many churchmen, notably the Americans, emphasized "practical" action here and now. Said the World Presbyterian Alliance meeting at Princeton (where Hromadka spoke): "Strive to break down racial barriers . . . Promote understanding between classes . . . Provide an opportunity for every man ... to earn a livelihood . . ." Other churchmen, rallying round the eschatological view that sees the Christian hope at the end of the world and not in it, argued that Christianity's place was not primarily in political or ideological battles. Contemplating "the hydrogen and perhaps a cobalt bomb...
...looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...