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President Conant will train his approach to science on biology next Monday when he joins a symposium on "Is the concept of science different in Biology from what it is in the Physical Sciences...
...unique breed: "Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things: liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted . . . They are proud, sensitive and haughty to the point of boorishness with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and Naval gunfire backing them...
...continent of Europe was planning to destroy all influence of religion on public life, it is a remarkable fact that our founding fathers based their own revolutionary action on the rights inherent in man as a creature of God, and placed their trust in His divine providence. [Their] concept of man ... is essentially a religious concept-a concept inherited from Christian tradition...
...trouble with Tolerance people is that they have too narrow an idea of the concept. To them tolerance is not the realization that there are values and goals other than their own, ones worthy of respect, indulgence, and protection. To them tolerance ends when its products approach views contrary to their own. They view every issue, be it cinema or what have you, through the same prism, a prism which blots out all but one consideration: racial tolerance...
Fundamental to the Davidson concept of general education is the school's connection with the Presbyterian Church. Although the founders of the college proposed "To educate youth of all classes without any regard to the distinction of religious denominations, and thereby to promote the more general diffusion of knowledge and virtue," the student body of Davidson today is half Presbyterian, and religious education plays a major part in the Davidson scheme of things...