Word: atheist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain...
...distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo...
...chief centre of British culture and scholastic life. Harvard University, in its way, has followed the changes which have been observed at Oxford. More and more the religious tests of the professorships have been relaxed or removed, until they have almost entirely disappeared. The community would not tolerate an atheist as the Harvard president any more than an atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important principle has now been vindicated for both institutions - the principle that learning, whether Christian or secular, must...