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...creating a heightened interest in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish history and even Bible study?though for many the latter is more cultural than religious. On U.S. campuses, an impressive number of Judaic courses have been added to the curriculums, often at the students' instigation. At least 55 secular colleges and universities???more than half of them top-ranking schools?now offer courses in Jewish studies, compared with only eleven a generation ago. Where formal Jewish studies fail to meet the demand, "free Jewish universities" have sprung up for adults as well as collegians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jews: Next Year in Which Jerusalem? | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from the younger." The campus revolutionaries "are so lost in their own idealism that they forget that those with other ideals are people too. Students must wake up and realize that what they want is not to tear down the universities???but to embrace each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE CYNICAL IDEALISTS OF '68 | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...thoughtful student from the London School of Economics" spent five months journeying through the U. S. He stopped at colleges and universities???colleges for men, for women, for men and women, for groes,' for Indians, for divines, for business men, for lawyers?30 institutions in all. At first he was staggered by the diversity of the sights he saw. Then, gradually, he formulated comprehensive ideas about U. S. education. When he returned, lately, to England, he said to his countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Visitor | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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