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God on the quad: at religious colleges--which are growing fast--student life is different.
In February 1988, author Tom Wolfe gave a Class Day address at Harvard in which he described ours as the era of the "fifth freedom"--freedom from religion. Religion, he commented with his satirist's smile, is "the last hobble" on the emancipation of students from "ordinary rules."
It's undeniable that college faculties, dominated as they now are by Sixties kids, continue their generation's endeavor to "liberate" others from the strictures of orthodox religion and traditional morality. Students who manage to arrive on campus with some traditional religious identity quickly find themselves a beleaguered minority. In the classroom, their beliefs are derided as ...
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