Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's young men, says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry P. Van Dusen. "The men who come here to study do not come to escape society," adds President Alvin N. Rogness of St. Paul's Lutheran Theological Seminary, "but to engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William C. Finch, seminarians are "as a group equal...
...theology and a minimum of how-to courses (although Chicago's famed Moody Bible Institute still offers a two-year "pre-aviation" course for flying missionaries). The trend now is to systematic theology, Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There is no sense in showing a seminarian how to hold a baby for baptism-he'll learn that later," says Dean John...
...that student government by itself decides great things, but that students participate in vital College decisions," she said. Mrs. Bunting declared that RGA has created a "less authoritarian atmosphere than is possible at Harvard...
...years, the palace was occupied by Rome's Vital Statistics Bureau. Then two builders, Mario Tudini and Achille Talenti, got the palace in 1939 in payment for a construction job. They haven't been able to do a thing with it. "For most of 24 years, this building has stood empty," said Tudini. "It's magnificent, but as an investment it has been a poor deal. I don't care what they say; we're going to sell." Price? About $2,000,000. Buyers? "Bankers, moviemakers, hotel owners, anybody...
...circumvent the racial barrier by pretending that everyone stands on the same side can only increase the real distance between the races. As you have pointed out, while a Negro may call another Negro a nigger, for a white man to assume this liberty is disastrous. This barrier, this vital difference must be acknowledged if it is to be understood and destroyed. The problem of the "liberal" white man, therefore, is not that he is too race-conscious, but that he is not race-conscious enough...