Word: adaptations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School, says that the area of education in quantitative skills is one in which he "might disagree" with Stendahl. Boynton says that the Div School "ought not to try to reinvent capabilities that exist elsewhere in the University." Boynton says that he is not sure how the school could adapt these capabilities to meet its needs, adding that he agrees with Stendahl that the tools of analysis are useful to students in the Master of Divinity program...
Willie said integration would force the schools to adapt their goals to those of the parents of the new students. He predicted that "truth and honesty, as well as proficiency in communication and computation, would be included in the curriculum...
...important when evaluating the disadvantaged minority student in the context of his or her environment. To be unequivocably rigorous, admissions criteria must be sensitive to the forums of expression available to disadvantaged applicants. A sense of injustice, a constructive attitude toward his or her environment, or the ability to adapt to ambiguous cultural situations might be considered important in taking stock of the minority applicant--as well as developing accurate means of academic evaluation. Even-handed admissions criteria would apply these criteria across the boards and stiffen up the admissions process for the majority student as well...
...times call for some reassessment of the interchange between private and community interest. The absolute lordship of private interests has had its day, and will have to adapt to a mixed system. That's eventually going to be true in the U.S. as well as elsewhere...
First of all, really, I try always to adapt myself to whatever occurs and seize the opportunity at any moment to fulfill the cause of my people. When I met with President Carter last April, I remember we started discussing the nature of peace. We spent more than one and a half hours trying to reach some sort of understanding and agreement on this. As far as meeting with the Israelis, I told him, "Let me tell you quite openly and candidly and friendly, I can't do this...