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...tradition. Like Plato's Academy, they were free "because their allegiance was to the Truth, as it was given to them to perceive it, and not to the community." Far from smothering discussion, the Christian framework of these universities "encouraged disputation of a heat and intensity almost unknown in universities nowadays . . . They were free, these Schoolmen, free from external interference and free from a stifling internal conformity, because the whole purpose of the universities was the search after an enduring truth, beside which worldly aggrandizement was as nothing...
...that, in the midst of a vast historical tragedy, he must remain loyal to the memory of a youthful friendship. He symbolizes the Little Man who goes on forever, while the Hitlers rise and fall. And he has at least enough moral sensivity to say: "For the question, then unknown and unexpressed, which hung above our friendship, I have not to this day found any answer: 'What were God's intentions when he created this...
Because of some unknown property of large-scale space, the galaxies fly apart, as they can be seen to do. But since new galaxies are formed continuously in the ever-growing voids between them, the "population density" of space remains about the same. This process, says Gold, keeps the expanding universe in a steady state. It has no beginning, and will have...
...statistical shortening of life expectancy." Such "radiation senility" has been demonstrated with animals. "This phenomenon does not result from any specific cause of death, but apparently from a general acceleration of the aging process. Whether this factor can be recognized in a human population is as yet unknown...
...replacement will be sophomore Casper Cronk, an unknown quantity who is wrestling his first varsity match. In the 130 bout Phil Herrera substitutes for the injured Phil Andrews...