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Word: supporter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's Board of Overseers has now taken the position that its students should belong to or support any group advocating overthrow of the Constitution by force and violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON HORDE | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

...unfortunate that Eisenhower did not openly support the universities when the Kennedy-Clark amendment was being debated by Congress, and it is equally regrettable that he does not now support their latest action. For it was the universities' decision not to administer the government funds that brought the whole issue of loyalty oaths to his attention. The stubbornness of Harvard, Yale, and other schools has placed the question of the disclaimer affidavit directly before the general public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Word | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

...growing educational system. Last year they enrolled 4,900,000 students, about 14% of all U.S. schoolchildren (and as many as 60% in strongly Catholic communities). The future is clear: roughly 30% of all U.S. babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids it. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools, while their own schools grow short of money, teachers, classrooms. What should Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Public and Parochial Schools | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...thing. It will believe in knowledge. It will be able to take advantage of the vast amount of new knowledge produced by the knowledge explosion of the last few centuries in constructing what we may call its theology-the framework of facts and ideas which provide it with intellectual support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New-Time Religion? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...should be able to define our sense of right and wrong more clearly, so as to provide a better moral support, and to focus the feeling of sacredness on fitter objects, instead of worshiping supernatural rulers. It will sanctify the higher manifestations of human nature in art and love, in intellectual comprehension and aspiring adoration, and will emphasize the fuller realization of life's possibilities as a sacred trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New-Time Religion? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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