Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion of the clergymen who work in the University community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...
Nevertheless, even on the college level, some divergences between the religious attitudes of men and women emerge. In the CRIMSON's poll of 310 undergraduates on religious and political questions, some small but perceptible differences between Harvard and Radcliffe appeared...
...most of the basic questions concerning religious belief, there was little contrast between the men and women. There was nothing distinctive in the Radcliffe view of the nature of God, the role of organized religion, or the interpretation of scriptural statements...
...between the sexes thus occurred not in beliefs but in religious practices, particularly in matters concerning marriage, family life, and the raising of children. This result corresponds well with the statements of the clergymen in the Harvard community. They recognize some difference in the religious attitudes of men and women, even when it is partially masked during the college years...
...questions of the material world, Radcliffe students illustrated slightly less concern than their Harvard counterparts. The tendency to go in one direction or the other, however, was slight for men and women alike...