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...only be understood as an attempt by most Jewish professors to adjust to an environment hostile to Judaism. Two per cent converted to Christianity; many became staunch humanists with a warm feeling for all aspects of culture and religion, so long as it was not Jewish. A large segment evolved the idea which is still held by many, that the university is a neutral community of scholars where religion should not intrude. The statistics I've just cited as well as the statement by the former president of Dartmouth indicate that this belief in the neutrality of the university performed...
...other religion; it was meant to allow for the free development of religious pluralism in America. Hence I affirm that being Jewish in America is as American as being Christian. What is un-American is exclusivism, discrimination, and lack of appreciation for the cultural and religious institutions of any segment of the population of this country...
...skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created the largest single segment of industrial civilization-the semiskilled worker...
...largely household servants) or an industrial economy (largely the auxiliary services of transportation and utilities, as well as some banking), but "human services" (the expansion in medical care, education and social welfare), professional technical services (research, planning, computer systems), and the like. This has meant that the fastest growing segment of the American labor force has been the professional, college-educated people. Today the professional, technical and managerial occupations make up 26% of the labor force, clerical workers 18%, semiskilled workers 17% and skilled workers only...
...national commitment of the Chinese, there is no lack of urgency among American scientists. California has not had a great earthquake since the San Francisco disaster in 1906, and seismologists are warily eying at least two stretches of the San Andreas Fault that seem to be "locked." One segment, near Los Angeles, has apparently not budged, while other parts of the Pacific and North American plates have slid some 30 ft. past each other. Near San Francisco, there is another locked section. Sooner or later, such segments will have to catch up with the inexorable-movement of the opposing plates...