Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spokane, Wash., Austrian-born Ski Instructor, and former fire extinguisher salesman, Hans Hauser, husband of gangland's Glamour Girl Virginia Hill, asked U.S. immigration officers for permission to leave his home, take his wife and child south to teach skiing in Chile...
Lenin's attitude, however, gradually changed. Sorokin was offered a position in the Bolshevik Government. He refused, accepting instead his old professorship at the University of St. Petersburg. "Unfortunately," he remarked wryly, "you cannot teach Sociology without political implications...
...tradition of Alfred North Whitehead and William James, Harvard might be a leader in ethical-philosophic thought; Harvard might teach a realistic, meaningful and scientifically valid religion by having such principles in the fore at its Divinity School. But it seems that certain members of the corporation and the bureaucracy don't want a religious emphasis with some meaning for today's world. Hence such rationalistic, essentially skeptical criticisms as those by this Eliot House student have to be accepted, even though they apply to religion as the historically viewed opiate it has been...
...ethical religions of these prophets. The point then is that Harvard might lead the way again, by having as its "chaplain" a man noted for his ethical insights into the religions of the world, not only into the Judeo-Christian religions. In an increasingly internationally minded era, Harvard might teach internationalism in ethical religion by example not by words...
...issue of whether reality is adequately presented at Harvard is a matter of definition. the empirical definition of reality is based on objectivity, the United Ministry's on belief. Under the former concept, teachers for any course, including those on religion, should be hired according to their ability to teach. Their beliefs are no substitute for this ability, whether five thousand students agree with them...