Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue between the Christian and the non-believer in the supernatural is clearly drawn. There is irreconcilable conflict between scientific fatalism and the postulates of the Christian faith. The world is a different place according as it is viewed from a Christian or a non-Christian standpoint, and no amount of mutual sympathy can bring these views together. The Christian believes that our acts are not all determined by natural physical forces. We are more than parts of nature,--we are something beyond it. In spite of the materialistic tendency of the modern world, the great mass of people leans...
...concert which Mr. Arthur Whiting was announced to give on next Tuesday evening has been postponed owing to the conflict in date with the lecture of General Leonard Wood on "Military Instruction" in the Union on the same evening...
...thing is expressed, the more easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights and property rights conflict, human rights must take the lead," he was expressing the dominant thought of democratic government today. And that, says Mr. Bryan, was Colonel Roosevelt's greatest speech...
...lectures scheduled for tomorrow evening. Certainly many men are anxious to hear both Dr. Figgis' first Noble lecture and President Eliot's talk on "Diversity in Family, College, and State." Moreover, tomorrow's lecturers deserve audiences as large and as representative as possible. It may be that the present conflict was unavoidable, but it seems likely that had a complete calendar of coming engagements been consulted, it would not have occurred...
...unfortunate conflict scheduled for tomorrow is apparently striking proof that this card catalogue is needed. It is to be hoped it will be maintained in its present complete form and that in future it will be consulted before determining the dates for important engagements...