Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities, be directed by Mrs. Dorothy Lee, Roger Hagan, Kenneth Keniston, Edward L. Pattullo, and Mrs. Susanne Rudolph. Mrs. Lee has outlined one likely project, to which people of all interests could make distinctive contributions. This is a discussion of "field theory," of the relationship (or "transaction") between the student and the material he studies. In the course of such a discussion, the physicist could relate the special problems of work in his own field--and likewise the historian, the anthropologist the archaeologist, and so forth...
...very large degree, each Protestant Harvard student develops his own personal religion. He may accept many of his denomination's teachings, but chances are that he will temper this belief with "important reservations." Three out of every five Protestants in the poll who maintain their affiliation take religious teachings with several grains of salt...
...Harvard Square minister characterized student belief as "a general drift of thinking in all, but including a great deal of individual variation." Certainly most Protestants do not exhibit orthodoxy in their religious thinking--they are not afraid to question their beliefs and to abandon many that seem untenable in the face of the rationalism and intellectualism of the College community...
...doctrine questioned extensively by Harvard Protestants in the necessity of faith. "After a few years at Harvard," one student wrote in a poll conducted at a Sunday evening fellowship, "faith becomes irrelevant." Faith, however, is one of the most necessary components of Protestant belief, for, as Santayana points out, faith alone justifies religion. Only a Protestant with strong religious beliefs can usually continue to hold the ideas inculcated in Sunday School, especially in the skeptical Harvard community...
...Student interest in Protestantism has taken two divergent paths, one of lessened concern, another of increased concern. The "organizational" aspect of Protestantism has suffered greatly under the surge of religious renewal. Students simply have little interest in the "speaker-games-refreshments" routine of many Sunday evening groups, scoring such undertakings as "trivial," "mundane," "unworthy of a religious person's interest." Slightly over six per cent of the Protestants covered by the CRIMSON poll participated regularly in fellowship activities...