Word: creationism
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...largest and best developed Committee has charge of travel in the various countries. As the facilitation of travel is the practical work done by which we hope to achieve our chief end, namely the creation of a universal feeling of good-will and understanding. I shall treat this part of the C. I. E. activities in a separate article...
...material side of life, there were a few but successful attempts which I should like to mention. Perhaps the greatest was the creation of the University Sanatorium in Leysen, Switzerland by the Swiss students. During the last year the French students raised the necessary funds to establish a similar sanatorium in the French Alps near Grenoble...
...Leptis Magna which have been going on for two or three years under the direction of the Italian government. Leptis Magna is an ancient city of Africa situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire...
...Germany's delegates waited, not in hopes and dreams, but pondering what they knew would be two causes to delay translation of the words of Locarno into action: 1) political upheavals in France which robbed the French delegate temporarily of his right to vote; 2) deadlock over the creation in the Council of seats for Brazil and Spain. They refused to commit Germany to any policy to be pursued once she should be admitted to the League. They waited...
...audacity of speculation and creation alone, it may be said, lies the salvation of a university. Its maintenance and its organization demand patterns of thought and patterns of life, but it is only in the destruction of these patterns that a university can preserve vitality or realize progress. Such destruction demands as its major requisite a willingness on the part of the student to apply some sort of critical faculty to the patterns which are created for him. Even a faculty of iconoclasts may labor in vain, if its students are afraid to doubt...