1964 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 28

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One-third of the courses are in English, the rest in Japanese. For an American or any other non-Japanese to graduate and get a Bachelor of Arts degree is no easy matter. It entails becoming fluent in Japanese. That means the student is not merely taking a Japanese language course, but must be able to attend a lecture on chemistry or any other subject in Japanese. To achieve this, the non-Japanese student who wants a degree spends his entire freshman year in intensive language training. A Japanese student, on the other hand, goes through the same kind of training to achieve fluency in English. But all Japanese have basic English instruction in high school and many are already fluent when they reach ICU. Admision to ICU is no easy matter, either for Japanese or other nationalities. Many dependents of American military personnel in Japan have reportedly failed entrance exams. About half a dozen Americans have graduated. Religion is not forced on ICU students. Only 10 per cent of the Japanese students declare themselves Christians on enrollment. This reportedly rises to 40 per cent by graduation. Attendance at the inter-denominational chapel on the campus and student prayer meetings is strictly voluntary. The only requirement is a 12-week, three-hours a week, "introduction to Christianity" course. All faculty members, however, must be Christians under the school charter. Japanese Christian professors at major universities as early as 1946 started organizing for ICU. The Japan Christian International University Foundation, backed by 15 major denominations, was set up in New York with distinguished church leader Ralph E. Diffendorfer as president. On Juni 15, 1949, 60 American, Canadian and Japanese Christians got together at the YMCA camp on the slopes of Mt. Fuji at Gotemba, and officially founded the university. ICU's doors did not open until 1953 due to financial difficulties. Two people, a Japanese imperial non-Christian prince and a Buddhist high government official, played a major role in backing ICU's birth.

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Vermoedelijk zal deze stichting bij velen onzer lezers bekend zijn, niet alleen doordat er in ons tijdschrift in de jaargang 1962 ruim aandacht aan gewijd werd, maar ook anderszins. In „Geloof en Wetenschap" 1962, blz. 75 beschreef de arts A. Verkuyl, secretaris Prot. Chr. Artsen Org. ontstaan en doel. Op blz. 151 e.v.v. werd, ter aanvulling en afronding van dat artikel een door de Stichting verbreid vouwblaadje met vele gegevens omtrent werkwijze, bestuur e.d. in zijn geheel afgedrukt. In dat vouwblaadje werd o.a. medegedeeld, dat de Stichting voorlopig zich voral wilde richten op het verlenen van steun aan het Christian

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