Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changeable are U.S. communities that new schools can become obsolete tomorrow. Needed: buildings as portable as tepees, as stretchable as the mind. Last week the nearest thing to this ideal was announced by M.I.T.'s department of architecture-a plastic prefab school that can be erected on its foundation in a week, dismantled and reassembled elsewhere in about...
...religion falls the fact that Harvard Catholics feel that atheists and agnostics are less likely than Catholics "to hold ethical opinions with which they can agree." Half the Catholics polled, however, feel that atheists and agnostics are just as likely as Catholics to "do the morally right or kind thing," and we can certainly speculate that some of this "tolerance" comes in many cases from their experience at Harvard...
...cent of those believing in some Divine presence replied in the affirmative. Seventy-nine per cent of the believers felt that the ethical opinions of atheists and agnostics were quite similar to theirs, and that both groups were just as likely to do "the morally right or kind thing." Atheists and agnostics felt the same way. If religion is separated from ethics, it loses a powerful hold on the souls of man. It can, of course, be argued that if a man rejects religion but believes in a mortality which religion created, he still is a religious man, and whether...
...divergence here between religious thought and religious practice, where church attendance is regarded as secondary to theological speculation. This physical separation from the centers of religious gathering encourages eclecticism and free choice among religious doctrines, and is considered by most observers, local ministers included, to be rather a good thing. "Interest in religion here is keen and sharp," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church has asserted, "one uses his head as much as anything else in being religious." A similar view was expressed by the Rev. Ronald D. Maitland, Acting Chaplain of Christ Church (Episcopal...
...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for a special privilege...