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...exhibitionist tendencies of a very weak minority of sensation-loving college men--utilizing as they do hackneyed and worn-out means of expression--should cause any indignation to people of a college community. This small minority will always exist in any large group, but there is no reason to infer that a majority or any semblance of a majority within the University takes stock in this horse-play...
Most young U. S. Roman Catholics learn about Original Sin from these questions & answers in the "Penny" or "Baltimore" catechism, first published in 1885. From them they might infer that Eve was at least as guilty as her spouse. But this is not good Roman Catholic doctrine: Adam, as father of the human race, bore the blame for Original Sin; Eve, only for her own sin. Last week, at a convention in Kansas City of the National Catholic Education Association, Father Francis J. Connell revealed that in the revised U. S. catechism which long has been in preparation (TIME...
...your information, I am advising you that my name is spelled "Joseph," not "Josef," which might infer that the person referred to could be a foreigner. This unquestionably is a typographical error. However, TIME, having the reputation that it does for accuracy, I thought you would like to have this brought to your attention...
Several notable examples of clear speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free...
...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...