Word: atheism
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...Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems to have collegiate ambitions, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism...
Contrary evidence to the theory that the youth of the present day and more particularly the college youth is of godless generation and that universities are but hotbed of atheism might be found in the collection of Phillips Brooks House addresses which Scribners announces for publication under the title of "Religion and Modern Life". Although in no sense sectarian in their appeal these talks, given by men prominent in the University, have managed to draw audiences--perhaps not large but at least representative--which have listened respectfully, unconscious of any difference in ideals between themselves and the speakers...
...Freeman Hopwood, secretary of something called the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, explained that in almost every student suicide case the unfortunate young person had believed...
...black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...
...magnified their importance, and provided manna for alarmists. And it is all because the man in the street is not interested in French requirements or the Tutorial system, but a student suicide is hot stuff, and merely confirms his ideas of college as a haven of hip flasks, atheism, and general immorality...