Word: scholasticism
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But picking the gamble-fund students at age 17, as the Harvard admissions committee has had to do, isn't a good deal easier than picking them at age ten. One student out of the first group--20 member of the Class of '61--had grown up in California's...
In stating what the church today believes, the bishops sometimes found fresh, nontraditional language that escaped from what Italian Bishop Jolando Nuzzi calls "the Western mortgage" on scholastic theology. By way of evidence, Bernard Haring, a German Redemptorist theologian, cites what happened to On Divine Revelation. "The first text intended...
Though his father was never much of a moneymaker, the family lived comfortably in a two-bedroom white house with green shutters. At 14, a "thin, scrawny, tallow-faced boy," as his father recalls him, Bill went to work sacking groceries at the A. & P. for 75? an hour, still...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for...
∙On the Missions. Sharply rejected at the third session because of its sterile, scholastic tone, the 40-page schema acknowledges the duty of the church to respect the cultural heritage of different nations, proposes a Central Evangelization Board for Catholic missions, vaguely outlines how Catholics may and may not...