Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author subtitles his book "Studies in Classics of Christian Devotion." But the ground covered in his lectures is far more extensive than a mere theological discussion. Taking as his subject six great literary milestones of Christian thought all the way from Augustine's "Confessions" to the diary of John Woolman, he paints behind each a portrait of the author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between...
...reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each of these works, the reader will be able to catch the main philosophical points and appreciate for himself the greatness of Dean Sperry's subject...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...
...team of Australian debaters who declared that there had been no good tea in America since the Boston Tea Party, defended the affirmative of the subject, "Resolved: That the British Empire must disintegrate," against a Debating Council team composed of Henry D. Oyen '41 and James J. Pattee '41 in the Adams House Common Room Saturday night...