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...news columns of this morning's CRIMSON contain the announcement of a widespread movement by leading educators to modernize religious teachings to conform to present-day science by adding to the Bible the humanistic utterances of such men as Lincoln and Carlyle and such documents as the Declaration of Independence. Quite a different point of view is shown in the statement reprinted elsewhere on this page reporting the progress of the Bryan Memorial University, a college in which every member of the faculty must swear to an implicit belief in the divine authorship of the Scriptures...
...field of a subject regardless of whether or not the material is embodied in the courses the student has taken. The general examinations under the new plan will ordinarily embrace only material that has been included in the courses; but, at the request of the student, they may even contain questions on any topic connected with the subject which the student has studied on his own initiative. Each department is given free rein in deciding what part of the final grade the examination will count, as well as determining other details of the requirements. The plan is thus optional, simple...
President Lowell's report for the academic year 1928-29 does not contain many startlingly new statements of fact or proposals for the future. His views on college athletics are well known, and he has made previously the suggestion that intercollegiate competition be confined to one major contest in each sport. His opinion that the average age of freshmen could well be reduced with a consequently shorter period of scholastic preparation for life has been expressed recently; and most notably, perhaps, at the National Education Association meeting in Boston in March 1928. He has at various times within the past...
...many letters, both commendatory and otherwise, have been received as a result of Saturday's "Crime" column, that it is impossible to print them all. The above letter, however, seems to contain points which make it the most intelligent comment on this particular side of the controversy...
...know?" countered the Fascist police lieutenant, a sturdy irreligionist like Signor Benito Mussolini. "It is clearly the duty of the police to break open these loaves and see if they contain bombs...