Word: transcendence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university) has a special capacity to transcend its social constraints because it embodies a tradi- tion of intellectual diversity and articulate criticism; and because of all human functions, thought is the most difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...
Thus, over the years, the Law School has remained clastic. But a mind-boggling array of serious problems must be confronted in the years immediately ahead. These problems transcend the tasks of Faculty recruitment and fund-raising. They are matters of educational policy, and law students at Harvard are vitally concerned about them. To a great extent, the next Dean will be responsible for their disposition...
...should start not with speculations about God but with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words, the existence of heroism and sanctity is evidence that there is a transcendent quality to man's being that points beyond this life...
...argument immediately raised by the committee's request concerns Harvard's general policy of avoiding positions that could be construed as "political." Yet HUAC's chilling effect on free speech--in this case, the freedom of students to associate legally with whom they please--would seem to transcend this objection...
...opposite side of a question from him. He throws the whole energy of his being into the advocacy of his views and the support of his friends. But at the end one finds that he has never lost sight of standards and values which transcend the heat of conflict and transitory differences of opinion...