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Both approaches have their dangers. Theologians tend to emphasize the divine inspiration and the factual truth of Scripture, and can fall into literalist absurdity -believing, for example, that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, even though Deuteronomy tells of his death. Scholars can be tempted to forget that the Bible...
Scholarly Swarms. Where is the multiversity going? At a time when C. P. Snow estimates that about 80% of the West's pure science research is going on in the U.S., says Kerr, "good scholars tend to swarm together," and university centers are coalescing into "mountain ranges" of higher education. Kerr charts three "great plateaus." The first runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., embraces 46% of the nation's Nobel science winners and 40% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences. Next comes the West Coast university complex with 36% and 20%, followed...
...career and marriage, only the fairly well-to-do middle class partisan can afford to be active in a party organization, especially in a leadership capacity, which may require attendance at meetings and conventions often hundreds of miles from home. The more financially secure Republicans, not surprisingly, tend to be the more conservative ones...
Moreover, unlike special issue groups such as SANE, the Young Republicans(or Young Democrats for that matter) tend not to be intellectually oriented as on organization. The Harvard Young Republicans have produced policy papers on civil rights and civil defense, and presently are assisting state legislators in research on Beacon Hill. But this is not typical fare for a Young Republican club, and not even the primary interest of the Harvard Young Republicans...
...what kind of discussion is best for each particular class. It would be unwise in structor will be able to find out what kind of discussion is best for each particular class. It would be unwise in most cases to use class meetings for answering questions by students (which tend to be uninformed and superficial) or for discussions initiated by students (which are generally pointless.) However--to give just a few examples--meetings might well be used for any of the following purposes: 1) making sure students understand important points in the lecture, 2) holding discussions on topics which...