Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More sharp words flared last week from Karl Barth's son, Dr. Marcus Barth, 43, of the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development...
...wants to do anything that might impair the quality of education," Furcolo declared Sunday...
Governor Furcolo presented a proposal to increase the size of classes in American colleges, made recently by Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, to President Eisenhower Sunday. He urged that a Presidential Commission study the plan...
Police snapped a crime wave in the freshman dormitories Sunday night with the arrest of five local youths. The group was apprehended shortly after allegedly taking $250 worth of records from the Holworthy room of William E. Wessels...
Hechinger, onetime education editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and now associate publisher of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, traces the history and analyzes the present state of U.S. and Soviet schools in a manner that might unsettle educationists of either nation. Particularly fascinating is the author's account of the rise, and the abrupt, inglorious fall of progressive education in the U.S.S.R. When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, Hechinger reports, they inherited a system of schools, serving only the children of the upper classes, that was as good as any other in Europe. But in a period...