Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...taken as its express field the more specifically thoughtful side of religious life. The Union urges upon all its members some participation in active religion, but as a body devotes itself to the consideration of the problems of religious thought. In this consideration the society has no bar of creed or opinion, but invites to its meetings all who desire to reach a personal conclusion upon religious questions...
...speaker, said: It is some months before the new student becomes conscious of the great simple religious movement sweeping through our midst. It is difficult to observe our religion on the surface, because we are quiet; perhaps we are too reserved. Our religion is that of character rather than creed. Chapel services here have long ceased to be a thing of compulsion, they are a privilege. Those of us who desire, meet simply in Appleton Chapel for fifteen minutes every morning, to ask a word of consecration on the day's work...
...Association," dwelt upon the unity of Harvard and Yale in all their religious aims. President Eliot spoke on "The Function of Religion in College"; he defined religion as primarily love for man and for God; and set forth the unity of ideals and interests, that under all differences of creed and condition, exists among men. W.T. Reid '01, replying to the toast "Athletics," spoke of Christianity as the best impulse in athletics and in life, because it infuses that united spirit and that inspiration which means success. Col. N.P. Hallowell '61 spoke delightfully on "The Old Days...
...speech of the evening. With directness and force, he outlined the hopes and plans for the coming year, and especially the one preeminent aim of the association--that it may be so broad as to unite in straight-forward religious life and work all earnest Harvard men, and that creed and form, while not considered lightly, may yet be subordinate to unity in fundamental moral, ethical and religious purposes...
...Crothers addressed the club, emphasizing the great possibilities of the Union, which stands for the same ideals in religion as the University does in education, in that it aims for free and impartial study of religious subjects, unhampered by sect or creed...