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From tiny rural chapels where true believers seated on rickety folding chairs profess "born-again" faith, to handsome, stately churches like Falwell's with memberships the size of small towns, Protestant Fundamentalism has become a powerful, confident and important force. Popularly associated with stern opposition to such personal "sins" as drinking, smoking and gambling, Fundamentalism draws upon the entire heritage of American revivalism, with its code of personal piety and insistence upon conscious commitment to Jesus Christ as one's "personal Savior...
Isaac, who received his PhD in African Studies in 1969--the year the Afro-American Studies Department was established--said he was "dragged into the new program" with what he took to be a promise of tenure. Ewart Guinier, profess of Afro-American Studies. Emeritus, and chairman of the department during Isaac's stay at Harvard, told The Crimson in October that the department had recommended him for tenure. Officials have said part because Ethiopian studies are not widely taught...
Today, students only have to profess a knowledge of a few useful classical terms like "Veritas," "Ad nauseum," and "PiEta...
Schollars also had to profess a "good Acquaintance" with the Classics mathematics, natural and moral philosophy, logic and rhetoric. Vestiges of these requirements till remain in the form of the Quantitative Reasoning test (logic), Expository. Writing (rhetoric), the language requirement (Classics, et. al.) and Freshman Week proctor meetings (moral philosophy...
Last year the head of the prestigious Duke University School of Law, Paul D. Carrington, wrote in a widely circulated article that "The nihilist who must profess that legal principle does not matter has an ethical duty to depart the law school." That article referred specifically to Unger, but the Duke dean continues to generate considerable controversy in legal and others have criticized both the scholarly ability and the morality of CLS professors in numerous harshly-worded essays. "While the adherents to this banner [CLS] are a varied group, it seems safe to characterize them collectively as nihilists Carrington writes...