Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more frequently acted upon than taught the precepts of his calling. He knew no strict creed, beyond the dogma of the useful life. His mind and spirit were the only art which he possessed, yet they were manifest in all he did or said. As a teacher he was more interested in developing keen and unaffected minds than careful theologians. As a minister he sought to instill the precepts of his Christianity in the minds of his people. As a beleiver in religion he cared less for what it was than for what it might...
...thought, for his vigorous dissents from majority opinions, for his literary grace and phrasemaking, it is likely that he will be remembered longest as a great abstract thinker, a philosopher who practiced his profession under the guise of the law. Years ago he gave Harvard students his high intellectual creed in these words...
...Gandhi has stated as part of his creed that civil disobedience is not only a natural right of the people . . . but that it is also an effective substitute for violence or armed rebellion. Experience has proven time and time again that in India civil disobedience cannot be carried on without violence...
...salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live cleanly, avoid dirt, and the pathway to monetary, armorial, and spiritual success is a broad highway with a 20 percent grade. In those days there was no Comparative Literature...
...large, untidy desk of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio one day last week lay a bill and a letter. The bill, passed unanimously by the Senate and House of Mexico (TIME, Jan. 4), provided that in the Federal District and Territories of Mexico no creed should be represented by more than one clergyman per 50,000 population. The letter was from Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Catholic Archbishop of Mexico. It urged the President to veto the bill...