Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlimited Cuts. Seniors in good standing at Princeton are privileged to be absent from as many lectures as they desire, without penalty, for the remainder of the academic year. It is an experiment which Dean Christian Gauss hopes will not be abused...
...American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., issued last week the second annual report of its anti-Christian activities. This report was prefaced with a statement of the decalogue of principles upon which the "4 A" conducts its goings-on. Thus...
...United States not being a Christian nation and its godless Constitution requiring a secular government, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism demands...
Like deism, atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community...
Keeley had had a formal medical education at Rush Medical College (now University of Chicago Medical School) and practiced as an Army surgeon for a time. Later the Chicago & Alton R. R. employed him as official surgeon. That was in the period when the Women's Christian Temperance Union made Ten Nights in a Bar Room a gospel of propriety, when the late Carrie Nation and her harridans heaved hatchets through expensive back-bar mirrors and at good mahogany fixtures. On that temperance agitation Keeley rode. Dwight, Ill., became the "Mecca of Liberty," the "Drunkard's Divorce Court...