Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honorary degrees were awarded to thirteen men and women this morning, at the University's 308th Commencement. Only one foreign nation was represented in the presentations, and degrees went to six educators, a pair of religious leaders, and two top-level diplomats...
Popular opinion usually regards the female as a member of the species with a greater degree of religiosity. Women are often considered more likely than men to accept doctrines of religious faith, and many clergymen will ascertain that women outnumber men in attendance at worship services. Frequently, the everyday explanation of this phenomenon is that the female is by nature a more sentimental and less rational being than the male...
...university community, a difference between men and women in religious attitudes is less easy to perceive than among the general population. Particularly at a women's college with students of the intellectual caliber of Radcliffe, one would expect as much rationality and honest skepticism about religion as at a comparable men's institution...
...Bunting's present title is actually Dean of Douglass College. Douglass is an all-women's institution, operating within the general framework of Rutgers University. Mrs. Bunting, as Dean, is the highest official concerned exclusively with Douglass, her immediate superior being the President of Rutgers University...
...generalizes. One dubious example: Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern architecture, since no one would credit them with an Early American ancestry anyway. And, searching for meanings, he wildly overinterprets. Example: American women do not like to ride motorcycles because, perched on the back seat, they would have to assume a position secondary to the male. (The real explanation just might be that a pillion ride on a motorbike is hard on coiffure, makeup and rump...