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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1965
Page
9
Westminster College announces a program to nurture gifted students through a Directed Reading and Research program for outstanding juniors and seniors. Selected by the Academic Honors Committee, these students will undertake individual major-field projects under faculty guidance to develop creativity and leadership useful to society.
Dr Wayne Christy outlines a shift in pre seminary work from Bible heavy focus to broad college studies. A Lilly Study report and Westminster College advisory panel push for English history and social sciences plus religion and philosophy courses. The college adds a Theology Major and maintains breadth with electives.
The piece argues Latin offers educational value beyond language study, enriching thought and culture, with defenders from scholars to Princeton speakers. It recounts Westminster College's Civil War era anti slavery ties, its Underground Railroad activity, and postwar campus growth including a 1926 Diamond Jubilee campaign, a Browne dormitory, and the old gym known as Old 77.
The text traces early reactions to the Armory Show of 1914 as hostile and dismissive, then explains how critics and the public gradually accepted new art forms. It argues that genuine art must feel alive through personal experience, requiring a balance between tradition and novelty, and notes 19th century Westminster college rules and 1919 professor salary increases.
Associate Professor Thomas M. Gregory recounts his sabbatical at Edinburgh University, praising the Church of Scotland and New College, noting pre college and honors based admission, and describing Westminster’s Old Main Memorial built in 1929 and recent dining hall improvements including a cow for milk.
Westminster College hosts the first Institute on Communism and Constitutional Democracy for secondary social studies teachers from June 21 to July 38. Forty four candidates are accepted from 125 applicants, including four from Lawrence County. 85 applicants are waitlisted for future years. The program covers political, economic, and historical ideologies with 30 guest lecturers and open lectures to the public.
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